InspiredBy
✨ Surprise ♡ 0
  1. Home
  2. Paintings
  3. Noble Hermit in a Mountain Retreat
A work made of hanging scroll; ink on paper.

Noble Hermit in a Mountain Retreat

Chen Ruyan · late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century

View at the AIC ↗

Palette

Chalk
 46% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Pearl grey
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Slate
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Ash
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Graphite
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1
Lamp black
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.4:1

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
Chen Ruyan
Chinese, fl. 1340-1380
Date
late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Place
China
Period
17th century
Themes
Mountains
Main colour
Grey · lightness 74, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund. 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

Works that share this palette

Search by colour

The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

Nymphs Bathing, Dirck van der Lisse Nymphs Bathing Dirck van der Lisse, c. 1650 Mountainous Landscape after Wang Meng, Wang Yuanqi Mountainous Landscape after Wang Meng Wang Yuanqi, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1715 Portrait of the Honorable George Canning, M.P., Sir Thomas Lawrence Portrait of the Honorable George Canning, M.P. Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1822 Venus and Cupid, Alessandro Turchi Venus and Cupid Alessandro Turchi, c. 1630 Dancer Resting with a Fan, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas Dancer Resting with a Fan Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1890/95 Portrait of a Man, North Netherlandish Portrait of a Man North Netherlandish, c. 1525

More like this by theme

All mountains
Polycrates and the Fisherman, Salvator Rosa Polycrates and the Fisherman Salvator Rosa, 1664 Polycrates' Crucifixion, Salvator Rosa Polycrates' Crucifixion Salvator Rosa, 1664 Christ Receiving the Children, Sébastien Bourdon Christ Receiving the Children Sébastien Bourdon, c. 1655 Italian Landscape with Travelers, Jan Both Italian Landscape with Travelers Jan Both, c. 1650 The Flight into Egypt, Abraham van Diepenbeeck The Flight into Egypt Abraham van Diepenbeeck, c. 1650 Tobias and the Angel, Pieter Mulier, II Tobias and the Angel Pieter Mulier, II, After 1684