VISHNU AND SARASVATI

OPAQUE WATERCOLOR ON PAPER

KANGRA SCHOOL 1880

CIRCA 1850

5.12"x9.12"

EXHIBITED:

Lycoming College Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1981

DESCRIPTION: Vishnu and Sarasvati are shown together on a lotus pad floating over a pond sprinkled with scattered lotus blooms and pads. Sarasvati's white birds are in the fourground. Vishnu gazing adoringly at Sarasvati hold his four hands, the wheel, conch, mace and lotus. Vishnu is richly ornamented with garlands, bracelets, and earings. One his head he wears a golden crown. The colors are muted, and the reds-greys of the landscape serve to set the scene and places focus on the figure. In the background a bearably discernible hill over which pinkish clouds ride. Red borders with two yellow stripes. This type of isolated scene occurs occasionally in Kangra painting.