A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Kama Shoots a Love Arrow at Shiva, from a copy of the Song of Gauri (Gita-Gauri)

Unknown artist · c. 1675-1680

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Palette

Pale stone
30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1

Olive
22% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1

Terracotta
21% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1

Saffron
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

Raw umber
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

Smoke
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Rajasthan, Mewar
Date: c. 1675-1680
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size: Image: 23.2 × 19.7 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Outermost Border: 27.4 × 21.2 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 28.9 × 22.6 cm (28 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Place: India
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 60, colourfulness 33

Art Institute of Chicago, Louise Lutz Endowment. 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

Kama Shoots a Love Arrow at Shiva, from a copy of the Song of Gauri (Gita-Gauri)

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