Rear View of Ganesha with the Face of a Monster
Also titled Achterzijde van Ganesha met het gezicht van een monster
Isidore Kinsbergen (Bruges, 1821–1905)
1867-08 - 1867-09
- Medium
- cardboard, paper, photographic support
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 340 mm x width 290 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Kinsbergen often photographed both the front and back of important sculptures in a scientific manner. Here the back of Ganesha’s head is protected by the growling face of a monster or kala. The inscription on the base is a dating in words, and probably places the sculpture in the year 1161 of the Shaka Era, or the year 1239 CE.
