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Leaf from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (Indian, died 1740)
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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Leaf from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (Indian, died 1740)

late 1700s

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Provenance

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?–1979

(Terence McInerney, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1979–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Terence McInerney, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). Martial Art of India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022).

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This leaf from an 18th-century romance manuscript comes from a section of the book that retells the epic battle between the demon Ravana and the god-hero Rama. The 10-headed multiarmed demon Ravana is the second figure from the right. Rama’s army of monkeys and bears, wielding tree branches and clods of earth, fill the remainder of the leaf. The images were created using a stylus that incised into the palm leaf; charcoal was then rubbed over the leaf and wiped off, leaving only the incised areas in black.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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