A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

Arjuna Slays Karna, page from a Mahabharata series

Unknown artist · c. 19th century

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Palette

Taupe
38% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1

Silver
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1

Charcoal
28% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1

Terracotta
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1

Steel blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1

Green earth
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Date: c. 19th century
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Size: Image: 20.6 × 29.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Paper: 28.9 × 35.2 cm (11 3/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Place: Nepal
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 48, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Pratapaditya and Chitra Pal. 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

Arjuna Slays Karna, page from a Mahabharata series

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