id:			122181
accession number:	1942.498
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.498
updated:		2025-02-09 00:52:31.712000

Head of Vishnu, 400s CE. Northern India, Mathura, Gupta period. Sandstone; overall: 28 cm (11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1942.498

title:				Head of Vishnu
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creation date:			400s CE
creation date earliest:		400
creation date latest:		499
current location:		243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Northern India, Mathura, Gupta period
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 28 cm (11 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		India's Art
	opening date:   1949-12-02T05:00:00
	<i>India's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950).

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': "<em>Exposition de sculptures et bronzes anciens de l'Inde</em>. C.T. Loo Inc., Paris, France (June 14–July 31, 1935).", 'opening_date': '1935-07-31T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>The Sculpture of Greater India</em>. C.T. Loo &amp; Co., New York, NY (1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [1877–1947]
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	(C.T. Loo [1880–1957], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. <em>History of Indian and Indonesian Art</em>. New York: E Weyhe, 1927.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. XXVIII, fig. 99
	url:		

	<em>Exposition de sculptures et bronzes anciens de l'Inde, 14 juin au 31 juillet 1935</em>. Paris: C.T. Loo, 1935.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 11, no. 5
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	Pope, John. <em>An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India, A Fully Illustrated Catalogue</em>. New York: C.T. Loo &amp; Co, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 27, p. 33; Reproduced: cat. no. 27, p. 54
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	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 14, p. 22–23; Reproduced: cat. no. 14, p. 44
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	Hollis, Howard. “A Gupta Head.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 30, no. 3, 1943, pp. 26–28.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 26–28; Reproduced: [unpaginated]
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141046

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 749
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n135

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n255

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255

	Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 106, fig. 35
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 292
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n312

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