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Sugriva
c. 1720
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and hand-colored silver paper appliqué on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 35.5 x 23.5 cm (14 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Southern India, Andhra Pradhesh
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The seated monkey king Sugriva presents the “fear not” gesture with his right hand. He served as Rama’s faithful ally during the war against Ravana. This work appears to have been made for French Jesuit missionaries by South Indian temple muralists. During the 1700s, missionaries commissioned sets of paintings from which they learned about the gods and literary figures popular among the people of the region.
