拉克希米 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	拉克希米
品名（英）	Lakshmi
入馆年号	2013年，2013.10
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1894
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	图像: 28 1/8 × 20 英寸 (71.4 × 50.8 厘米) 页: 30 3/4 × 25 7/8 英寸 (78.1 × 65.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	拉克希米站在莲花上，也许是所有早期印度教神石版画中最著名的例子。这在一定程度上是因为拉维·瓦尔马的名气，以及他制作出如此高质量的图像的事实，但这也是其长期印刷的结果；这种印刷品的许多简化版本一直持续到20世纪20年代。拉维·瓦尔马（Ravi Varma）以他为各种赞助人创作的一系列油画为基础创作了这幅版画；其中一件目前正在瓦都达拉王公法特辛格博物馆展出。版画的绘画质量证明了它起源于油画，这是一种在19世纪末基本上开始流行的媒介，拉维·瓦尔马是其最成功的代表之一根据Mark Barron的说法，这幅版画可以追溯到1894年，即拉维·瓦尔马出版社的第一年。他将此建立在使用画笔边缘的点画技术、超大的格式（比标准的28 x 20英寸的拉维·瓦尔马出版社印刷品大）、纸张的不均匀纹理以及几乎没有清漆的事实之上。同样重要的是使用了如此多的颜色，每种颜色都需要一块单独的石头，以及选择了使用寿命非常有限的粉彩托盘底座上是Anant Shivaji Desai的首字母缩写A.S.D.，他是拉维·瓦尔马出版社印刷品的两个原始经销商之一。
介绍（英）	Lakshmi standing on a lotus is perhaps the most well-known example of all of the early lithographs of Hindu gods. In part this is because of Ravi Varma’s fame and the fact that he produced such high quality images, but it is also a result of its long print run; much simplified versions of this print continued to be produced into the 1920s. Ravi Varma based this print on a series of oil painting he did for various patrons; one of these is currently on display in the Maharaja Fatesingh Museum, Vadodara. The painterly quality of the print attests to its origins as an oil painting, a medium that essentially comes into fashion in the late 19th century with Ravi Varma being one of its most successful exponents. According to Mark Barron this print can be dated to 1894, the first year of Ravi Varma Press. He bases this on the stippling technique that uses the edge of a brush, the oversized format (larger than the standard 28 x 20 in. Ravi Varma Press prints), the uneven texture of the paper, and fact that it has little or no varnish. Also significant is the use of so many colors, each of which would have required a separate stone, and the choice of pastel color pallet, which has a very limited life span. On the base are the initials A.S.D. for Anant Shivaji Desai, one of the two original distributors of Ravi Varma Press prints.