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Bodhisattva
1800 - 1900
- Medium
- paper, ink, dye
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 126.5 cm x width 74 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Ada Helena Hondius-Crone, 1978)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Presented here is a bodhisattva: a being that has attained enlightenment, but compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to remain with humankind, helping those in need. The figure is depicted in bright, vividly contrasting colours. The painting served as a banner in open-air ceremonies, therefore the image had to be instantly visible even from considerable distances
