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A work made of opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper.

Queen Trishala Gives Birth to Mahavira, from a copy of the Kalpasutra

Unknown artist · c. 1475-1500

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Palette

Biscuit
 47% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1
Tan
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Warm grey
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Terracotta
 6% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.6:1
Ivory
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.4:1
Coral
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.5:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Unknown artist
Gujarat
Date
c. 1475-1500
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
Size
Image: 10.3 × 7.4 cm (4 1/16 × 2 7/8 in.); Paper: 11.4 × 26.3 cm (4 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)
Place
India
Period
15th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Everett and Ann McNear Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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