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Ardhanarishvara

Indian,Pahari
About 1850
Object Place: Kangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 14.8 x 21.3 cm (5 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Image: 14.8 x 21.3 cm (5 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2583
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

InscriptionsObverse: at top, in Sanskrit Devanagari, with transliteration in AKC's hand

Colors, in Devnagari, on various parts of the painting.
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)