Collection Online as of September 26, 2023

Vishnu with Shri and Bhu

900–950

Part of a set. See all set records

South India, Tamil Nadu, probably Pudokkatai, early Chola Dynasty, 10th Century

Granite

138.4 x 41.9 cm (54 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.); 129.5 x 38.1 cm (51 x 15 in.); 175.9 x 61.6 cm (69 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1963.104

Location

243 Indian and Southeast Asian

Provenance

?–1963

(William H. Wolff [1906–1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1963–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 235 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 235 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 298 archive.org

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 144-145

Dehejia, Vidya, and Thomas B. Coburn. Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. Washington, D.C.: Published by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad and Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1999. Reproduced

Exhibition history

Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).