Durga assisted by Goddesses killing Mahishasura

Durga assisted by Goddesses killing Mahishasura

Size: 127.4 x 76.7 cm.
About the middle of the 19th century. 
Tempera on cloth pasted on wooden plank.

  • Attempt at encrustation is evident. Though stylised, the figures have been painted by a master hand. Approach to realism is obvious in the Mahishasura figure.
  • Presented in 1951 by the late Raja Sahib Kumaraswamy Raja Bahadur, Raja of Karvetnagar, Chittoor District.