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Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

Unknown artist · Late 17th century

Palette

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

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Artist

Unknown artist
Probably Deccan, Aurangabad

Date

Late 17th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

Image: 13.5 × 16.3 cm (5 5/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Border: 14.6 × 16.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 16.6 × 19 cm (6 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

Place

Deccan

Period

17th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 60, colourfulness 34

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Oriental Art. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules