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Krishna Playing His Flute (Venugopala)
(India, Nepal, and Tibet)
Krishna is a mesmerizingly attractive cowherd who is an avatar of the god Vishnu. This lively image is of the four-armed Venugopala, Krishna playing his flute. The flute is now missing, but the image still holds two of Vishnu’s attributes, a discus and a conch shell. In a domestic shrine an image like this one would be flanked by a sculpture of Krishna’s wife Rukmini on one side and his wife Satyabhama on the other.
Provenance
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Baroness Helen Giskra [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by gift.
Geographies
India (Place of Origin)
Measurements
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Baroness Helen Giskra, 1949
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.2327