Standing Female Figure (1050–75): Art, History and Details

Standing Female Figure (1050–75) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Though many iconographic elements were adopted from India, Khmer sculptors resisted the exaggerated voluptuous form of Indian female figures. They maintained the subtler figural styles that convey a distinctively Khmer ideal of the female form. This sculpture exemplifies the figural style and mode of dress of the Baphuon sculptures, a royal temple in Angkor built by King Udayadityavarman II (reigned 1050-1066). Since other figures from the Baphuon depict images of or related to Shiva, it is possible to identify this female figure as his wife Parvati.

Object facts

• Title: Standing Female Figure
• Date: 1050–75
• Culture: Cambodia, Angkor, Baphuon, Angkorean Period (877-1431)
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: sandstone
• Dimensions: Overall: 91.4 cm (36 in.)
• Collection: Cambodian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1970.60

A detail from the museum

The figure wears an elaborate belt decorated with pendants around her sarong.

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.

View the collection record

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