Sitala
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sitala is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a woman with four arms riding a donkey. She wears a red and white outfit, a bright yellow headpiece with a sun-like glow, and holds different objects in each hand. The donkey is brown with a simple saddle, and the background is a plain, light green color. The woman’s face has a calm expression, but her many arms suggest she’s performing multiple tasks at once. The bright colors and bold outlines make the scene stand out clearly. If you like this style, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more paintings like this.
The painting depicts Sitala, the goddess associated with smallpox, rendered in opaque watercolour on paper. Created in 1885 by an unknown artist, the work was later acquired in 1894 from Miss M Steele, whose mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, had inherited the piece. Steele noted that her grandmother, who had lived in India, may have originally collected the artwork.
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