Sugriva
1700–1720
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and hand-colored silver paper appliqué on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 35.5 x 23.5 cm (14 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Southern India, Andhra Pradhesh
About
The seated monkey king Sugriva presents the “fear not” gesture with his right hand. He served as Rama’s faithful ally during the war against Ravana. This work appears to have been made for French Jesuit missionaries by South Indian temple muralists. During the 1700s, missionaries commissioned sets of paintings from which they learned about the gods and literary figures popular among the people of the region.