Vamana
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Vamana is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, depicting Krishna, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a dark-skinned man in a yellow dhoti and orange shawl. He wears a lot of white jewelry and has a red umbrella over his left shoulder. His right hand is raised, and his left hand rests on his stomach. The man's face and body are painted with dark skin, and he has a white line down the center of his forehead. He also has white circles on his arms and ankles. The background of the painting is a light brown color. The style of this painting is similar to that of the Realism movement. You might also want to check out other works by artists associated with the Realism movement.
The artwork is a painting created in 1885 using opaque watercolour on paper, illustrating Vamana, the dwarf avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. It was acquired from Miss M Steele in 1894, part of a collection inherited from her mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge. Miss Steele noted that her grandmother had also resided in India, suggesting the possibility that the painting was originally collected there.
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