Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase actor and model among other

actor and model among other things

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

Very well worn

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

a great heel

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase actor and model among otherI 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