Description: Miniature painting with colors and gold on paper. India, Kashmir, first half of 19th century
This amusingly eccentric and, in part, very finely painted work features the god Shiva as an aristocratic young man dressed in white with a third eye on his forehead and his white steer, Nandi, in the uppermost field. Next to him is one of his wives and below are his two sons, Ganesha and Skanda, on a peacock. Ganesha has the head of an elephant and a protruding belly, two very distinctive and important attributes of this god. Stretched over canvas, matted.
Dimensions: 35 x 17.4 CM
Condition: Multiple damaged points on the edges
Provenance: From an old Viennese collection