Vishnu's Incarnation as Rama, slayer of Kartavirya (Parashurama Avatara), number 6 from a series of the ten avatars of Vishnu (Dashavatara)

by 1967, purchased by Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky (Washington D.C.) probably* in Asia; December 1968, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. *The object file contains a letter from Mr. Ladejinsky’s art appraiser stating that “I believe his objects were purchased recently…in the Far East.”

• Asia
• Miniature Paintings & Manuscripts

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