Krishna and Balarama
Painting
ca. 1760 - ca. 1765 (made)
ca. 1760 - ca. 1765 (made)
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This painting is one of a series of illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, a Sanskrit text whose tenth book deals with the life of the god Krishna. Krishna, blue-skinned, is shown with his brother Balarama in the centre. At the end of their tuition their guru Sandipani, shown seated with his wife, asked as his teaching-price the return of his drowned son. Krishna and Balarama drove their chariot to the coast, slew the marine demon who had killed the boy, then went to Yama, the god of death, who returned the child to them.
Object details
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| Title | Krishna and Balarama (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Painted in opaque water-colour on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, Bhagavata Purana, Krishna and Balarama, restoration of the child, opaque watercolour on paper, Guler style at Basohli, ca. 1760-1765 |
| Physical description | Painting, in opaque water-colour on paper, Krishna and Balarama in a courtyard with the child of their spiritual preceptor, returning him to his parents. Background brownish-yellow. From a 'fifth' Bhagavata Purana series. |
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| Content description | Krishna and Balarama in a courtyard with the child of their spiritual preceptor, returning him to his parents. |
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| Production | Guler style at Basohli |
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| Literary reference | Bhagavata Purana |
| Summary | This painting is one of a series of illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, a Sanskrit text whose tenth book deals with the life of the god Krishna. Krishna, blue-skinned, is shown with his brother Balarama in the centre. At the end of their tuition their guru Sandipani, shown seated with his wife, asked as his teaching-price the return of his drowned son. Krishna and Balarama drove their chariot to the coast, slew the marine demon who had killed the boy, then went to Yama, the god of death, who returned the child to them. |
| Bibliographic reference | Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022
p. 49, cat. no. 22 vii |
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| Accession number | IS.39-1960 |
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| Record created | July 21, 2000 |
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