Krishna's Earthly Ties, Page from a Dispersed Bivamangalastava

A woman in a green skirt and red bodice reaches toward a small blue-skinned youth, Krishna, who kneels at right beside a large grey elephant with a painted saddle. At left, a turbaned ruler sits on a raised platform, and a seated attendant with a white turban appears below. In the lower left corner, a figure with a snake coils on dark ground. Bands of Devanagari script run across the top border on a red field.

Look closer: A small snake charmer with a coiled snake sits in the dark lower-left corner.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1695–1700

Medium

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3229 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2006