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Vishnu with the Goddesses Lakshmi and Sarasvati
Vishnu with the Goddesses Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Vishnu with the Goddesses Lakshmi and Sarasvati

CultureIndian
Dateca. 12th century
MediumBronze with traces of paint
DimensionsOverall: 7 5/16 × 3 1/2 × 2 7/16 inches (18.57 × 8.89 × 6.19 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number63-3
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 228
Exhibition History

Master Bronzes of India, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 3-October 10, 1965; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 21-November 30, 1965; Cleveland Museum of Art, January 18-February 27, 1966; Asia House Gallery, New York, October 12-December 11, 1966, no. 8.

Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India (8-12th Centuries) and Its International Legacy, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, November 11, 1989-January 14, 1990; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, February 17-April 15, 1990; The Newark Art Museum, May 22-August 26, 1990; The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, October 9-December 2, 1990, no. 48 as Visnu with Laksmi and Sarasvati.

Provenance

With J. J. Klejman Gallery, New York, by 1962;

Purchased from J. J. Klejman Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

Art Institute of Chicago and William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Master Bronzes of India, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), unpaginated, (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, “Checklist of Acquisitions 1962-1966,” The Nelson Gallery & Atkins Bulletin, 4, no. 8 (1967): 47.  

“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1975-1976,” in Archives of Asian Art 30 (1967-77): 115, fig. 33, (repro.).

Susan L. Huntington and John C. Huntington, Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India (8th-12th centuries) and its International Legacy, exh. cat. (Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute, 1990), 175-76, plate 48, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 383, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 270, fig. 41, (repro.).



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