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Krishna Playing the Flute

Series TitleKesavadasa's Rasikapriya
CultureIndian
Dateca. 1650
MediumOpaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 5 1/2 inches (20.32 x 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-106
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Exhibition of Early Indian Sculptures, Paintings, Bronzes, and Textiles, Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, 1934, no. 44c as Krishna Playing Flute.

Miniatures and Small Sculptures from India, University Gallery, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 10-May 29, 1966, no. 36 as Krishna Playing the Flute and Dancing.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1934;

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

Alvan C. Eastman, Catalog of the Heeramaneck Collection of Early Indian Sculptures, Paintings, Bronzes, and Textiles, exh. cat. (New York: Heeramaneck Galleries, 1934), 17.

The University Gallery, University of Florida, Miniatures and Small Sculptures from India, exh. cat. (Gainesville: University of Florida, 1966), unpaginated, (repro.).

Walter M. Spink, Krishnamandala: A Devotional Theme in Indian Art, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, no. 2 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, 1971), 62-63, fig. 72, 121, (repro.).

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