A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.16

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The most interesting department of Tibetan, as of Mongolian, pictorial art is that of portraiture. The painted portraits should be compared with the bronze statuettes described *ante*, pp. 198–200. Excellent specimens of this branch of Tibetan art, which is less conventional than the pictures of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, are included in a packet of twenty-four ‘Pictorial Illustrations of Tibetan Buddhism’ in the Hodgson collection of the Institut de France. By the kindness of M. A. Foucher, who made the selection, I am able to offer two unpublished reproductions of these remarkable works, depicting holy Lamas, one of whom is ‘paisible’, and the other ‘terrible’.