id:			142284
accession number:	1966.119
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.119
updated:		2025-05-05 19:54:18.856000

River Goddess Ganga, c. 700. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura. Sandstone; overall: 108 cm (42 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1966.119

title:				River Goddess Ganga
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creation date:			c. 700
creation date earliest:		590
creation date latest:		790
current location:		243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 108 cm (42 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

	title:		Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
	opening date:   2024-10-12T04:00:00
	<i>Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 12, 2024-November 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Robert Rousset [1901–1982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1966
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1966–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n255

	Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 53, no. 7 (1966): 181–284.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 254, no. 142; Mentioned: p. 255, no. 142
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110

	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. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255

	Lerner, Martin. "Some Unpublished Sculpture from Harshagiri." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 56, no. 10 (1969): 354-64.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 359. fig. 6
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152300

	Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 38
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

	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. 292
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n312

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IMAGES

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