Durga and Ganesha
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Durga and Ganesha is a 1850 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a woman with four arms sitting on a lion. She holds a baby in one arm and a small object in another. Her face is dark with a golden headpiece, and her clothes are bright red and yellow. The background has faint outlines of other hands and shapes, but they’re barely there. The woman’s many arms are a common way to show gods in Indian art. The lion she sits on is a symbol of power and protection. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more paintings like this.
A watercolor painting on paper from 1850, featuring tin alloy details, depicts the deities Durga and Ganesha. The work was acquired by the Department of Prints and Drawings in 1889 from G. Wild, where it was assigned the reference RP 51/2237.
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