id: 122254 accession number: 1942.563 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.563 updated: 2023-03-07 15:13:53.952000 Vishnu, 650–700. Cambodia, Style of Prasat Andet. Sandstone; overall: 49.9 cm (19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1942.563 title: Vishnu title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 650–700 creation date earliest: 650 creation date latest: 700 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Cambodia, Style of Prasat Andet technique: sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Cambodian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 49.9 cm (19 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Neumann Collection, Saigon, Indo-China date: footnotes: citations: (Herman Larrain Pero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The deity is four-armed with the arms running parallel from the shoulders and then bifurcating at the elbows. digital description: wall description: Vishnu has the features of royalty, indicated by the high mitre-like crown with the flat top, distinctive to types made at the site of Prasat Andet. His status as a god, greater than any earthly king, is indicated by the four arms, traces of which are still visible. The sensitive rendering of the eyes and slight smile are characteristics of Cambodian sculpture, and during this early period, the form of the body reveals some relatively naturalistic musculature and treatment of the garments. He wears the Southeast Asian lower garment called sampot, around which his upper garment is loosely tied. It is Vishnu who incarnates himself into the world in avatars, including Krishna and the boar Varaha. Here we see his iconic form as Vishnu himself. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.563/1942.563_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.563/1942.563_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.563/1942.563_full.tif