BRAHMA AND INDRA WORSHIPPING LORD VISHNU
Jaipur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, ca. 1880 – 1920

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the horizontal-format composition depicting the blue-skinned Hindu god Vishnu standing in the middle on top of a lotus pedestal, with a large flaming halo, holding his traditional attributes, flanked by the multi-eyed Vedic god Indra with his attendants, and the four-faced Hindu god Brahma, part of the Trimurti, with two more attendants, set within black, yellow, and white rules, and concentric polychrome borders, the reverse with a small inscription in black ink Devanagari script at the top identifying the scene, 20cm x 26.4cm.