Slapende Vishnu
Also titled Sleeping Vishnu
c. 1100 - c. 1300
- Medium
- sandstone
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 32.8 cm x width 20.2 cm x depth 19.4 cm x weight 14.5 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase C.J.P. Baronesse van der Feltz-Lotsy, 1951)
- 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
This head originally formed part of a complete figure of Vishnu. The Hindu god would have been represented reclining on his side, resting his head on his hand. The damage behind his right ear marks the place where the hand would have been. According to Hindu belief, creation is cyclical. Before each new creation cycle, Vishnu sleeps and dreams of the coming regeneration.
