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
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creation date:			650–700
creation date earliest:		650
creation date latest:		700
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Cambodia, Style of Prasat Andet
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Cambodian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 49.9 cm (19 5/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Neumann Collection, Saigon, Indo-China
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	(Herman Larrain Pero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 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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fun fact:
The deity is four-armed with the arms running parallel from the shoulders and then bifurcating at the elbows.

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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 <em>sampot</em>, 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.
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