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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.202.147
Title
Studies of Women and Lokapurusha
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1850
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217273

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray-black and brown inks and watercolor on beige laid paper; Rajput Style, Kota School
Dimensions
21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.202.147
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The page features studies of an angry woman with a furrowed brow and mouth agape. She gestures with her left arm proper. The top right of the page is occupied by a partial sketch of Lokapurusha, or “Cosmic Man”, from his waist to his feet. His stomach features two large elephants and a small depiction of the blue-skinned, Hindu god Vishnu resting on Shesha, a multi-headed cobra that is believed to hold all of the plants of the universe on his hoods. Vishnu is accompanied by his wife, Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. His legs are composed of architectural elements. Rajput Style, Kota School.

Publication History

  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kotah, Artibus Asiae Publishers (Ascona, Switzerland, 1974), p. 41; pl. C, fig. 109
  • Stuart Cary Welch, Indian Drawings and Painted Sketches , exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (Washington, D.C, 1976), Page 102/Figure 54
  • Stuart Cary Welch, "A Matter of Empathy: Comical Indian Pictures", Asian Art & Culture, ed. Karen Sagstetter, Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, Fall/Winter 1994), vol. 7, no. 1, Page 78/Figure 1
  • Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 168-169, no. 57

Exhibition History

  • The Music Room, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/1984 - 11/11/1984
  • From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005

Verification Level

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