Kumara, the Youthful God of War on his Peacock Mount

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Arts of Asia

8th/9th century

Nepal
Kathmandu Valley

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Kumara, the Youthful God of War on his Peacock Mount
Place: Kathmandu Valley (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 701 CE–900 CE
Medium: Gray schist
Dimensions: 57.6 × 43.4 × 12.8 cm (22 11/16 × 17 1/8 × 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2014.1027
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Pratapaditya Pal, with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 289, cat. 76, 65 (ill.).
Pratapaditya Pal, with contributions by Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinuber, and Gautama V. Vajracharya. Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure , (The Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Publishing, 2003), pp. 38-39, cat. 14.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection , Aug. 2–Oct. 26, 1997, cat. 76.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure , April 5, 2003-Aug. 17, 2003, cat. 14; Washington, DC, The Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Oct. 18, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.

With Spink & Son, London; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, July 26, 1983 [invoice from Spink & Son, July 26, 1983; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 15, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 19, 2014.

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