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Balarama and Krishna

c. 1890
Gum tempera, graphite, and ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Here a divine sibling pair, Balarama and Krishna, are portrayed as mirror images of one another.

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