Thanka with Buddha

Colors in this work

Artist: Unknown artist
Date: 19th century
Medium: Distemper on cloth
Dimensions: Image: 33 1/8 x 20 7/8 in. (84.1 x 53 cm)
Origin: Tibet
Department: Asian Art
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #E5BE72 · 22%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #DFD6C4 · 15%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #998249 · 11%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #9DB48C · 8%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #CDBD9C · 7%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #F19C71 · 7%

Dried Marigold · Orange family · #D2874E · 6%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #6A6543 · 6%

Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #6D8984 · 4%

Realgar Spark · Orange family · #EC7145 · 4%

Plaster Rose · Pink family · #E8ABA5 · 3%

Stormwash · Blue family · #61697D · 2%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #FBE4B0 · 2%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #433D28 · 1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #AE4725 · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #BFD2CB · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #A1B9CA · <1%

Slate Night · Black family · #28202C · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of Joseph H. Heil, 1970

11 tags

Deities and Holy Figures Both · 99%

The catalog explicitly lists Buddha as a subject, and a large seated, haloed Buddha occupies the center of the image.
Flora Both · 99%

Peonies are listed among the catalogued subjects and large pink and red blossoms are visibly arranged around the central figure.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

The image uses vivid red, orange, green, yellow, pink, and blue color areas throughout the figure, flowers, architecture, landscape, and border.
Symmetrical Visual · 96%

The seated central figure establishes a strong vertical axis, with paired attendants, blossoms, and ornamental elements balancing the composition on both sides.
Highly Detailed Visual · 98%

Fine details are rendered in the garments, jewelry, flowers, clouds, trees, buildings, figures, animals, and patterned borders.
Patterns Visual · 95%

Repeated decorative motifs appear on garments, architectural surfaces, floral arrangements, clouds, the throne, and the surrounding border.
Dense Composition Visual · 96%

The field is densely populated with the central Buddha, attendants, many smaller figures, pavilions, vegetation, clouds, streams, animals, and other landscape elements.

Painting Metadata · 99%

The classification identifies the object as a painting, specifically a thangka, and the image is a painted composition.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The museum record dates the work to the 19th century.

Asian Art Metadata · 94%

The museum record gives Tibet as the place of origin; the catalog provides Asian Art as the applicable broad geographic classification.

Buddhist Art and Architecture Both · 99%

The museum identifies the work as a thangka from Tibet with the subjects Buddhism and Buddha; the image presents a formal sacred composition centered on a seated Buddha.

Unknown artist. Thanka with Buddha. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.