Vishnu Appears to King Muchukunda in a Cave in the Himalayas

Object Details

• School/Tradition

  Pahari school

• Provenance

  From at least 1967

  W.C. Archer, London, from at least 1967 [1]

  To 1999

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd., New York City, to 1999

  From 1999

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd. in 1999

  Notes:

  [1] The object was in the W.G. Archer Collection when published in Mildred Archer's Indian Miniatures and Folk Paintings (London: Arts Council, 1967), no. 25; therefore, it fulfills all provenance requirements (according to Curatorial Note 3, Milo C. Beach, October 1998, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd. (active 1990-2013)

• Origin

  Basohli or Guler, Punjab Hills, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1760s

• Name

  McInerney, Terence

• Place

  Punjab Hills, Basohli, Guler, India

• Topic

  Mountains, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Vishnu, Art, King, Bhagavata Purana, Caves

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings