Vishnu

CultureIndian

Datelate 12th century

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall: 21 × 11 inches (53.34 × 27.94 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number56-109

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 4n.

Master Bronzes of India, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 3-October 10, 1965; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 21-November 30, 1965; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, January 18-February 27, 1966; Asia House Gallery, New York, October 12-December 11, 1966, no. 44 as Vishnu.

Provenance

Ajit Ghose, Calcutta, by 1932-1956;

Purchased from Ajit Ghose by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

Published References

Ajit Ghose, “A Group of Early Cola Bronzes,” in Ostasiatische Zeitschrift 10, no. 5 (1934), 176-86, (repro.).

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 30.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 232-33, (repro.).

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.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 135, (repro.).

Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri, The Colas (University of Madras, 1975), 733, 764, plate 30, fig. 77, (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), 386, (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. 40, (repro.).

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