id:			146190
accession number:	1971.80
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:29.916000

Krishna Reaching for the Moon, c. 1820. India, Pahari Hills, Guler school, 19th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.); overall: 26.5 x 18.7 cm (10 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.80

title:				Krishna Reaching for the Moon
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creation date:			c. 1820
creation date earliest:		1815
creation date latest:		1825
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	India, Pahari Hills, Guler school, 19th century
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Overall: 26.5 x 18.7 cm (10 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 4-August 5, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-02-04T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-August 18, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-02-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	O.C. [Ordhendra Coomar] Gangoly [1881-1974]
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	(John D. MacDonald, Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Gangoly, O. C. M<em>asterpieces of Rajput Painting, Selected, Annotated and Described in Relation to Original Hindi Texts from Religious Literature</em>. Calcutta: [A.K. Gangoly] manager, "Rupam", 1926.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 37
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	Khandalavala, Karl J. <em>Pähari Miniature Painting</em>. Bombay: New Book Company, 1958.
	page number: 	no. 287
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	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. 310
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n330

	Leach, Linda York. <em>Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 117
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	Swaranjali, Pallavi. "The Architect Inside Out: Reading the Barrel-Vaulted Ceiling of Balkrishna Doshi's Studio -- Sangath." In <em>Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity.</em> Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi, and Jodi La Coe.Abingdon, eds., 222-233. Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor &amp; Francis Group, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 223-225; Reproduced: p. 224, fig. 19.1
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