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Krishna and Balarama taking the cattle out to graze, from a Bhagavata Purana

c. 1780–90

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 12.7 x 20.5 cm (5 x 8 1/16 in.); with borders: 14.5 x 21.9 cm (5 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.338
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Print
A horizontally oriented tempera painting depicts the blue-skinned god Krishna and light-skinned Balarama in the center foreground. Krishna gestures toward three light-skinned women standing in a doorway on our right, one holding a food tray. On the left, figures lead white, gray, and pink cattle across green hills. In the center background, a man tends to cows inside a thatched structure. Trees with green and pink foliage fill the distance.

Krishna and Balarama taking the cattle out to graze, from a Bhagavata Purana

c. 1780–90

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

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