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A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

Battle of the Forces of Krishna and Bana, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Unknown artist · c. 1520–1530

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Palette

Tan
 38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Madder
 27% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Peach
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1
Apricot
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1
Lavender grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Unknown artist
Delhi-Agra region, possibly Mathura
Date
c. 1520–1530
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Size
Paper: 18 × 23.5 cm (7 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Place
India
Period
16th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. 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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