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A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Lovers in a Zenana Garden at Night

Mughal · 17th/18th century

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Palette

Old gold
 69% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Bronze
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Pale stone
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.1:1
Mustard
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

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
Mughal
Date
17th/18th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size
Image: 20.6 × 12.5 cm (8 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.); Outermost border: 28.6 × 19.4 cm (11 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 28.9 × 19.8 cm (11 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.); 20.7 × 12.4 cm (8 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
Place
India
Period
Mughal painting · 16th century
Themes
Gardens · Night and moonlight
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 55, colourfulness 38

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

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