A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

Royal Women Feeding Fish

Unknown artist · c. 1740

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Palette

Warm grey
43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Moss
34% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1

Mustard
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Oyster
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.7:1

Sand
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

Terracotta
4% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.6:1

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

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Artist: Unknown artist
Rajasthan, Bundi
Date: c. 1740
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Size: Image: 28.4 × 20.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Outermost border: 28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 29.5 × 22 cm (11 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.); 28.3 × 21 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Place: India
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 54, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Everett 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. Licence rules

Royal Women Feeding Fish

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