AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA

NEPAL, CIRCA 1775

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
NEPAL, CIRCA 1775
Opaque watercolor on paper
Image 12 3/8 x 18 ¾ in. (31.5 x 47.6 cm.); folio 14 ¼ x 20 5/8 in. (36.3 x 52.5 cm.)

Provenance

Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 10 April 1973
Collection of Baroness Guy de Gunzburg (1926-2016), Virginia

Lot Essay

The present and following lot come from dispersed Nepalese versions of the Bhagavata Purana, which chronicles the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu, each of whom must save the world from danger, destroy the wicked and protect the virtuous.

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