Adam's Berg (Mulkirigala), Reclining Buddha

Adam's Berg (Mulkirigala), Reclining Buddha

NG-1985-7-3-125

Interieur van een grot met een beeld van de liggende Boeddha van vijf manslengten lang en één manslengte hoog en enkele Singalezen in lendedoeken. Met opschrift.

• inscription: ‘Dit beeld van groove aarde gemaakt legt in de graftombe in den heidensche Singalesen tempel op Ceylon niet verre van Colombo’
• signature and date: ‘J. Brandes delin 1785’

draftsman (artist): Jan Brandes (signed by artist), Colombo

1785-10-10 - 1785-12-30

waterverf over schets in potlood, penseel in kleuren

height 206 mm x width 325 mm

1700 - 1800

purchase 1985-05-02

Public domain

? Collection of the artist; his daughters, Johanna Maria Brandes (1792-1813) and Charlotta Constantia Brandes (1796-1870), Skälsebo;{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} by descent to Erik Kellberg (1883-1960);{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} ? to Brite-Louise Mangs-Kellberg;{File RMA.}…; anonymous sale, London (Sotheby’s), 2 May 1985 sqq., no. 216, £ 50,000, with xx other drawings, to the dealer W. Graham Arader III, New York, for the Rijksmuseum, in exchange for eighteen drawings that were part of this lot, 1985

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