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Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha
early to mid-12th century
- Medium
- Distemper and gold on cloth
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- Image: H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm); W. 15/16 in. (35.4 cm) Framed: H. 32 13/16 (83.3 cm); W. 21 11/16 in. (55.1 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm)
- Culture
- Tibet
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
