The Remarkable Mr. John Gilmore Ford (1928-2024) of Baltimore and Some Remarks on the Famous “Ford Tārā”
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Figure 9: Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha
Tibet
early to mid-12th century
Distemper and gold on cloth
H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm); W. 15/16 in. (35.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.479
Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993.