Durga as Mahishasuramardini (the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon)
970–1070
Object PlaceTamil Nadu, India
Medium/TechniqueGreen schist
DimensionsOverall: 150 x 61 x 45.7 cm (59 1/16 x 24 x 18 in.)
Mount (Steel round rod armature support / two welded plates): 121.9 x 2.5 cm (48 x 1 in.)
Case (Wooden pedestal opening in back access for armature): 99.1 x 83.8 x 53.3 cm (39 x 33 x 21 in.)
Weight: 367.41 kg (810 lb.)
Mount (Steel round rod armature support / two welded plates): 121.9 x 2.5 cm (48 x 1 in.)
Case (Wooden pedestal opening in back access for armature): 99.1 x 83.8 x 53.3 cm (39 x 33 x 21 in.)
Weight: 367.41 kg (810 lb.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number27.171
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On viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceAbout 1920, acquired near Chidambaram by Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (b. 1885 – d. 1945), Pondicherry, South India; sent by Jouveau-Dubreuil to C. T. Loo (dealer; b. 1880 – d. 1957), Paris and New York [see note]; 1927, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 3, 1927)
NOTE: An undated photograph (Jouveau-Dubreuil papers, Archives of the Musée Guimet, Paris) annotated with provenance information and an indication that it went to C. T. Loo, inv. no. 384. French archaeologist Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil and his Indian agent Thangavelu sourced this and many other sculptures in Tamil Nadu in the late 1920s for art dealer C.T. Loo.
NOTE: An undated photograph (Jouveau-Dubreuil papers, Archives of the Musée Guimet, Paris) annotated with provenance information and an indication that it went to C. T. Loo, inv. no. 384. French archaeologist Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil and his Indian agent Thangavelu sourced this and many other sculptures in Tamil Nadu in the late 1920s for art dealer C.T. Loo.
900 – 970 A.D.
late 10th century A.D.
about 2nd century A.D.
about 2nd century A.D.
about 3rd century A.D.
about 3rd century
9th–10th century A.D.
2nd–3rd century A.D.
about late 10th century A.D.
3rd century C.E.
11th century
about 3rd century A.D.