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View full screenKalighat or painting, executed in watercolour on mill-made paper, depicting Krishna overcoming the crane demon Bakasura: Indian, Hindu, probably 19th or early 20th century
A.1912.291.11
India, South Asia
19th - early 20th century
Watercolour on paper
Depicted: Krishna
Depicted: Bakasura
Krishna and the divine lover, Lausanne, 1982, figs. 36 - 37, p. 41 for the story
Jain, Jyotindra Kalighat painting: images from a changing world, Ahmedabad, 1999