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Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1881
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Video
Virtual Tour with Dr Miranda Wallace and India Mahdavi
Learning Resource
Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | Notes for Educators
Video
Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | Exhibition introduction
Video
Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India
Essay
Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India
Video
Top Arts 2022 | India Wallace
Essay
A Kushān bodhisattva and early Indian sculpture
Essay
Gavin Brown’s Indian snakes and ladders outfit
Essay
Devotion and idolatry: the conflicting purposes of a nineteenth-century Indian deity album
Exhibition
Cinema India
Essay
A technical examination of William Blake’s Virgil wood engravings
Essay
William Blake and the NGV: the history of the Virgil wood engravings
Exhibition
El Dorado Columbian Gold
Exhibition
The Arts of Asia
Exhibition
MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025
Essay
Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef
Essay
Caryatid
Essay
Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
Essay
Amorous soldiers and Amazons: queer tales from antiquity
Video
Megacities
Explore the collection
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Dress
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
SHOE
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Jumpsuit
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
FRAGMENT
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Skin heel boots
FECAL MATTER, Montreal (fashion house); Steven Raj BHASKARAN (designer); Hannah DALTON (designer)
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
DAMASK
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)