# Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38006)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/as/web-large/DP-42256-001.jpg
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