Matsya, the fish incarnation of Vishnu Painting of Matsya, the fish-incarnation of Viṣṇu. The upper body of Viṣṇu emerges from the body of the fish. A silk sash is draped over his elbows and has an intricate design. On laid and water-marked European paper, dated 1816. Medium – paint and gold on paper
Krishna kills Shishupala Gouache painting on paper from an album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities. Kṛṣṇa, shown as a portly young man, sits on a carpet. He offers a banana to a seated crowned figure whose head is propelled into the air by the violence of the chakra (discus). The moustachioed king points his
Opaque water color painting of Shiva’s attendant Adhikara Nandi, a youthful figure with a bull’s head. He holds some of Shiva’s attributes: in his upper right hand he carries the damaru (hourglass shaped drum) and in his upper left the mriga (gazelle), while his lower right hand is in abhaya and the lower left in
Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. In Hinduism – Nandi is Lord Shiva’s mount. He is also praised as Nandikeshwara or Nandideva. He is white bull (Rishabha). The white-complexioned Nandi in his zoo-anthropomorphic (human) form stands on a low pedestal. He wears a crown, dhoti and