About the Artwork
Devi Slaying the Demon Dhumra Lochana
ca. 1730
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Indian
Indian
Pigment on paper
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 1/4 inches (13.3 × 18.4 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
26.392.B
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, upper left Inscribed, center
Provenance
(Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy)
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Rajput Painting, vol. 2. Oxford, 1916, (pl. 26-A) (as Pahari, Jammu, 17th century).
A.C. Eastman. "Six Indian Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 5 (February 1927).
DIA Picture Book: Art of India, China and Japan. Detroit, 1946, p. 10 (ill.).
Rajput Painting. Exh. cat., Asia Society. New York, 1960, cat. no. 60 (as Punjab Hills, Basholi, ca. 1700).
DIA Picture Book: Art of India, China and Japan. Detroit, 1961, p. 44 (ill.).
Miniatures and Small Sculptures from India Exhibition Catalogue. Exh. cat., University Gallery, University of Florida. Gainesville, 1966, cat. no. 59.
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Indian, Devi Slaying the Demon Dhumra Lochana, ca. 1730, pigment on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 26.392.B.
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