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Vishnu Vasudeva

CultureIndian
Date9th century C.E.
MediumCopper alloy
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (18.73 × 11.43 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck
Object number56-130
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

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. 14 as Vishnu.

Provenance

Nasli (1902–1971) and Alice (nee Arvine, 1910–1993) Heeramaneck, New York by 1956;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

Published References

Douglas Barrett, “Bronzes from Northwest India and Western Pakistan,” Lalit Kala no. 11 (April 1962): plate 32, (repro.).

Art Institute of Chicago; 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.).


M. Fairbanks, Marcus, “Master Bronzes of India: The Expanding Horizon of Indian Bronzes,” Oriental Art 12, no. 1 (Spring 1966): 90, fig. 7, (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).

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).

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