Seduction Scene on a Terrace by Moonlight
Mughal · 18th century
Palette
Parchment
Biscuit
Smoke
Putty
Graphite
Tan
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
- Mughal
Possibly West Bengal, Murshidabad - Date
- 18th century
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor with gold on paper
- Size
- Image: 16.8 × 23.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Outermost border: 26.7 × 40.1 cm (10 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.); Paper: 29 × 42.2 cm (11 3/8 × 16 5/8 in.)
- Place
- Murshidabad
- Period
- Mughal painting · 17th century
- Themes
- Night and moonlight
- Main colour
- White & cream · lightness 77, colourfulness 18
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 (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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