Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase one in 1907 and one

one in 1907 and one in 1912

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

Quite a fan

a great heel

the sheep and the white sky behind are more thickly painted than the ground around them

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase one in 1907 and oneI think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems