Annapurna and Shiva
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Annapurna and Shiva is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, depicting Kalighat, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a woman and a man standing side by side. The woman is dressed in a long red robe and has a halo around her head. She is holding a bowl in her hands. The man is wearing a white robe and has a snake on his head. He is also holding a bowl. The painting has a yellow background with some orange and gray lines. It looks like it was made using a technique that involves layering paint to create depth. The painting is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. If you want to learn more about this style of art, look up Impressionism.
The artwork is a painting executed in opaque watercolour on paper, dated 1885, depicting the goddess Annapurna seated and the god Shiva standing. It was acquired by the museum from Miss M. Steele in 1950 as part of a collection inherited from her mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge in 1894. The collection may have been originally gathered by Miss Steele’s grandmother, who had lived in India for some time.
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