# Krishna Stealing Curds

- Date: 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
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.28)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1966.28/1966.28_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.