Four-Armed Standing God Vishnu with Personified Weapons (Ayudhapurusha)

Arts of Asia

8th/9th century

India
Kashmir

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Four-Armed Standing God Vishnu with Personified Weapons (Ayudhapurusha)
Place: Kashmir (Object made in)
Date: 701 CE–900 CE
Medium: Green chlorite
Dimensions: 24.4 × 14 × 5.8 cm (9 9/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2021.232
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John Siudmak, “Gandharan and Western Himalayan Sculpture in the Alsdorf Collection,” Orientations 28, no. 7 (July/Aug, 1997): 42–50, 48–49, fig. 11.
Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 31 (ill.), 277–78, cat. 27. and p. 49.

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. 27.

With Bruce L. Miller, Kathmandu, Nepal, by Feb. 14, 1979 [this and the following according to receipt from Bruce L. Miller, Feb. 14, 1979; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Feb. 14, 1979; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 17, 1997; publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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