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Tara Dispeller of Misery
Tibetan
late 16th century or early 17th century
Object Place: Tibet
Medium/Technique
Distemper on cotton
Dimensions
Image: 66.5 × 45.1 cm (26 3/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Framed: 80.6 × 58.7 cm (31 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Framed: 80.6 × 58.7 cm (31 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.347
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionPainting with decorative borders, mounted on support panel. Would have originally been in thangka format. Painting may depict Tara, Dispeller of Misery: number 10 from the set of Twenty-one Taras according to the system of Dipamkara Atisha. Other paintings from this set are 06.322 and 06.323.
Provenance1904, sold by Florine Langweil (b. 1861 – d. 1958), Paris, to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1906, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)