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Aug 20, 2012

Head of a Rishi

c. AD 125–150

Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period

(c. 80-320)

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Overall: 27.7 x 24 cm (10 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1971.41

Location

not on view

Description

The beard and thick dreadlocks identify this image as that of a rishi, a wise sage and Brahmin priest of Hinduism. Few examples of rishis survive in the round from this period.

Citations

Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 95, fig. 21 www.jstor.org

Diamond, Debra, and Molly Emma Aitken. Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2013. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 3, p. 37

Exhibition history

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (organizer) (October 19, 2013-January 26, 2014); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 21-May 25, 2014); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 22-September 7, 2014).

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Head of a Rishi

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Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period

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