Shiva and Nandi
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Shiva and Nandi is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a seated figure with a blue-gray body and a black mustache, holding a yellow object in one hand. The figure sits on a yellow cloth, wearing a red-and-black patterned skirt. Behind them is a white bull with a red-and-black horn, looking downward. The painting’s flat colors and bold outlines suggest it’s part of the *kalighat* style, a type of Indian folk art from the 19th century. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
The artwork is an opaque watercolor painting on paper from 1885, depicting the Hindu deity Shiva seated on the bull Nandi. It was acquired by the museum in 1950 from Miss M. Steele, whose mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, had inherited the series in 1894. Steele noted that her grandmother, who had lived in India, may have originally collected the images.
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