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| Keywords: Indian - Ascetics Before the Shrine of the Goddess - Walters W859.jpg The five pilgrims are shown engaged in three different activities following the continuous mode of visual narration that has remained a favorite of Indian artists for over two millennia In the foreground they bathe in a river; having cleansed their bodies they pay obeisance to the goddess in the temple; finally they sit in a group below a flowering tree and in the warmth of an improvised fire they say their prayers Each ascetic called sadhaka devotee or siddha empowered in the text has a distinctive physiognomy rendered with convincing naturalism Realistic touches are also evident in the manner in which the garments and rosaries are strewn on the ground and in the depiction of the fire indicative of intense cold at the isolated shrine high in the mountains Indeed the iciness of the atmosphere is further conveyed by the prominent use of cold pastel tones and stark white which gain in intensity from the jutting charcoal gray rocks in the water the patch of green and the orange flowering vines dangling from the tree early Other date century 19 pigments paper cm 36 5 49 2 accession number W 859 26869 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2001 place of origin Kangra Himachal Pradesh India Walters Art Museum license 2D Hindu art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Hindu sages 19th-century watercolor paintings from India Paintings of India in the Walters Art Museum Rivers of India in art Religious buildings of India in art | ||||
