Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase the sheep and the white

the sheep and the white sky behind are more thickly painted than the ground around them

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

I did a bit of searching on the mark but didn't find a match--you may know better than I do

aqua and plum

actor and model among other things

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase the sheep and the whiteI think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems