Avalokitesvara incarnate as the Dalai-Lama
Unknown Tibetan, Tibetan
18th century
Water soluble pigment on canvas, with brocade boarder
Overall: 31 × 21 3/4 in. (78.7 × 55.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Eleanor St. George, in memory of her husband, Charles St. George
P.952.73.7
Geography
Place Made: Himalayan Region, Tibet, Asia
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Sienna Craig, Spring 2013
REL 19, AMES 39, Tibetan Buddhism, Nancy Lin, Winter 2012
REL 40, AMES 42, Visual Culture of Tibet and the Himalayas, Nancy Lin, Summer 2012
REL 19, AMES 39, Tibetan Buddhism, Nancy Lin, Winter 2012
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2019
Art History 34.01, Arts of Tibet, Xiaotin Yin, Winter 2023
Art History 34.01, Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages 52.02, Arts of Tibet, Xiaotin Yin, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Buddhist Tantric Images, Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, January 6-24, 1969.
Provenance
Eleanor St. George (1880-unknown), about 1912; given to present collection, 1952.
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