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India, West Bengal, Medinipur, circa 1850-1900
Drawings; watercolors
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper; cloth backing
Sheet and image: 155 x 19 5/8 in. (393.7 x 49.84 cm)
From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase (M.71.1.32)
South and Southeast Asian Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

1. King Kamsa receives news of Krishna's birth. 2. Right: Krishna announces his imminent birth to Devaki. Left: Yashoda gives birth to Yogamaya. ...
1. King Kamsa receives news of Krishna's birth. 2. Right: Krishna announces his imminent birth to Devaki. Left: Yashoda gives birth to Yogamaya. 3. Left: Vasudeva takes Krishna away to switch him with Yogamaya. 4. Left: Washerman raises Yogamaya (now missing) over his head. Center: Yogamaya as Kali announces Krishna's birth and Kamsa's ultimate death. Right: Krishna kills the ogress Putana. 5. Left: Krishna kills the elephant demon. Center: Krishna kills the heron demon. Right: Krishna kills the bull demon. 6. Krishna helps a herd of cows ford the river during a flood. Right: Brahma (?) pays homage to Krishna, the tale of Yashoda and Nanda's cow. 7.Left: Krishna subdues two demons. Center: Krishna subdues the serpent Kaliya. Right: Krishna and Balarama with Yashoda at the butter churn. 8. Left: Krishna ferries the gopis (milkmaids) to market and flirts with them. Right: Krishna steals the gopis' clothes. 9. Krishna-Kali: When Radha's husband comes upon Krishna and Radha dallying in the forest, Krishna turns himself into an image of Kali and Radha pretends to worship him. 10. Nagamandala: a serpent wants to hold Krishna out of devotion and winds himself into a mandala. 11. Krishna multiplies himself to dance with each gopi. 12. Krishna and Radha in a palace surrounded by gopis. 13. Krishna multiplies himself to dance with each gopi. 14. Krishna goes to Mathura. The people of Vrindavan bid him farewell and the gopis throw themselves at the wheels of the cart to stop him.
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Bibliography

  • Dohanian, D.K.  The Art of India.  Rochester, NY:  Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, University Publications, 1961.
  • Rosenfield, John.  The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection.  Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966.
  • Dohanian, D.K.  The Art of India.  Rochester, NY:  Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, University Publications, 1961.
  • Rosenfield, John.  The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection.  Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966.
  • Pal, Pratapaditya; Vidya Dehejia.  From Merchants to Emperors:  British Artists and India, 1757-1930.  Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986.
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