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Krishna Stealing Curds
late 1700s
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27.7 x 19.3 cm (10 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
