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Balarama and Krishna
c. 1890
- Medium
- Gum tempera, graphite, and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 45.3 x 27.9 cm (17 13/16 x 11 in.)
- Culture
- Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
- 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
Here a divine sibling pair, Balarama and Krishna, are portrayed as mirror images of one another.
