Cleveland Museum of Art
Krishna Stealing Curds
- Date
- late 1700s
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
As a toddler growing up in a rural cowherding community, Krishna loved to eat the dairy products his parents attempted to keep out of his reach. With bold rounded contours and modeling, the blue-skinned Krishna totters precariously on a ladder, while his irate foster mother brandishes a stick at him. Krishna’s brother Balarama holds a snake, since he is an incarnation of Vishnu’s cosmic serpent.
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