Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors Signed ASW

Signed ASW

in cream and a sort of khaki green

and while it shows its age

3 1/4" x 2 5/8"

but what I love most is the way that the shot and eroded away parts of the head and neck/back transform this duck into a fiercer looking creature - like a serpent of some sort

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors Signed ASWI 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