A PILGRIMAGE PICTURE OF SATRUNJAYA India, Rajasthan, Mount Abu or Sirohi, 1800—1850

Rossi & Rossi, 1992. 

The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 6 November 1994—22 January 1995; Kimbell Art Museum, 5 March 5—28 May 1995; New Orleans Museum of Art, 15 July—17 September, 1995; Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 November 1995—21 January 1996.

P. Pal, ed., The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, New York, 1994, p. 73, fig. 47.

Wear overall, loss to pigments and gold paint, minor creasing and staining throughout. Laid on canvas. 2cm tear in lower right quadrant on woman in green sari. With textile borders on all four sides, and wooden support dowels along top and bottom register for hanging. Please note that the dimensions for this painting are 95 ⅝ by 65 ½ in. (242.9 by 165.1 cm).
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Included in the groundbreaking international exhibition on Jain art, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, this monumental painting of Satrunjaya depicts an epic pilgrimage scene, in which royal soldiers, monks with the distinctive face mask and broom, aristocrats and laymen and women line the circuitous pilgrimage route, together with a riot of howdas, tongas and chariots, and a large number of animals including elephants, camels, bulls and horses. 

Located outside of Palitana in the hills of Gujarat, the temple-city of Satrunjaya is one of the most significant Jain pilgrimage sites in India. The frequent subject of Jain spiritual art, Satrunjaya is revered as the site in which Bharata, the son of the first Jina Rishabhanatha, passed away and attained nirvana. The hundreds of temples at Satrunjaya cover the hillside above Palitana and are visible in the current work, commissioned in first half of the 19th Century.