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Shiva watches Parvati Sleep
Indian, Pahari
about 1780–90
Object Place: Garhwal or Kangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.5 x 21.3 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2652
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsReverse: In AKC's hand: " AKCoomaraswamy/ 1910/Bought with others from Balakram"
Written separately: "By Mola Ram"
Written separately: "By Mola Ram"
Provenance1910, sold by Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal (Srinagar), great grandson of artist Mola Ram (b. 1750 - d. 1833), by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947), Needham, MA [1]; 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 125.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 125.