Krishna and the Cowherds Dive into the River, from a Rasikapriya (c. 1640): Art, History and Details
Krishna and the Cowherds Dive into the River, from a Rasikapriya at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1640, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Krishna and the Cowherds Dive into the River, from a Rasikapriya (c. 1640) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Krishna and seven cowherds (gopas) playfully jump into a river, depicted as a wavy tricolor band that divides the composition diagonally in half. Krishna and four others are already airborne, while three get ready to jump. Radha and her friends witness this feat in amusement from a marble platform. The milkmaids are fully dressed, while Krishna and the cowherds are wearing kaupina loincloths.
Object facts
- Title: Krishna and the Cowherds Dive into the River, from a Rasikapriya
- Date: c. 1640
- Culture: Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa
- Type: Painting
- Technique: gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Page: 20.6 x 17.8 cm (8 1/8 x 7 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 2018.126
A detail from the museum
The boys are shown in subtly different sizes to convey their movement through space.
Collection credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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