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"Balarama and Krishna Fighting the Enemy", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Balarama and Krishna Fighting the Enemy", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Maker not identified

Date
ca. 1590–95
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Image: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm) W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) Page: H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm) W. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Object type
Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Classification
Codices
Country
present-day Pakistan
Object number
28.63.2
Credit line
Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1928
Gallery
463
Original Met record

Subjects and terms

  • Battles
  • Army
  • Soldiers
  • Krishna
  • Vishnu

The Met object ID 448184. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.