Untitled
The Met
Artist: Sheikh Taju
Date: 1780
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 27 5/8 in. (29.8 x 70.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019
Visual Descriptions
AI GeneratedVisual Summary
Brief Description
A white tiger with an open mouth in a dense forest of bare and leafy trees
Detailed Description
This horizontal painting features a stylized forest scene with a prominent tiger on a light, off-white background. The right half of the image is dominated by a large, white tiger with black stripes, depicted with its mouth wide open, revealing a red tongue and white teeth. Its eyes are wide and round. The tiger's body is partially obscured by the surrounding trees. The forest is dense, composed of numerous trees with thin, gnarled branches. Many trees are bare, rendered in shades of gray, dark brown, and light blue, while others have small clusters of leaves in green, yellow, or light blue. The trees vary in height and thickness, creating a layered effect across the entire composition. In the upper right corner, above the tiger, there are horizontal bands of color: a dark gray, a thin white line, an orange band, and another thin white line, with some blue-gray, wave-like shapes beneath them. In the upper left quadrant, several lines of red text are visible, written in an unfamiliar script. The scene depicts a wild, natural environment with a muted color palette.
Generated by gemini-2.5-flash
