id:			117677
accession number:	1938.303
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updated:		2025-04-30 11:28:27.985000

Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya, 1634. Central India, Malwa school, 17th century. Gum tempera and ink on paper; image: 17.8 x 13.8 cm (7 x 5 7/16 in.); overall: 20.5 x 16.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of N. M. Heeramaneck, 1938.303

title:				Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya
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creation date:			1634
creation date earliest:		1634
creation date latest:		1634
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creditline:			Gift of N. M. Heeramaneck
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culture:	Central India, Malwa school, 17th century
technique:	Gum tempera and ink on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 17.8 x 13.8 cm (7 x 5 7/16 in.); Overall: 20.5 x 16.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	recto, accross top: She comes to embrace me only after I appease her in millions of ways. [Even while embracing me] she keeps her mind wide awake and often looks around in the midst of sleep [i.e. Krishna cannot sleep soundly].  Although my beloved is away, she [Sleep] does not trust me for a moment.  I can never know her.  Behaving like a newly wedded shy wife, she runs away from me in the middle of the night."  V. Dwivedi, 1968, Appendix B, p. 27.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		India's Art
	opening date:   1949-12-02T05:00:00
	<i>India's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Rajput Painting</em>. Asia House, New York, NY (December 3, 1960-January 22, 1961).', 'opening_date': '1960-12-03T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 13, 2003-February 18, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-08-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 18, 2004-May 3, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2004-08-18T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Nasli Heeramaneck [1902–1971], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman. "The Decorative and the Super-Real: Two Rajasthani Miniatures." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 8 (October 1957): 180-183.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 181
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142231

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 766
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n138

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 238
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n262

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 238
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n262

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 305
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n325

	Seitz, Konrad. <em>Orchha, Datia, Panna: "Malwa"-Miniaturen von den rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands 1580-1850 : Sammlung Eva und Konrad Seitz.</em> Köln: Hanstein, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 202, fig. 5.6
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