Cosmic Vishnu as Infant Krishna

16th-17th century

18.4 cm 8.3 cm 11.1 cm

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Though he may appear as a mere child playfully sucking on his toes, Krishna is in fact an incarnation of the powerful god Vishnu. This devotional image portrays a vision the sage Markandeya once had, when he saw the infant lying on a banyan leaf floating in the cosmic ocean. W...

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Hartman Gallery, New York; purchased by E. C. O'Dell, Baltimore, 1955; inherited by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, March 1981; given to Walters Art Museum, 2010.
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