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A work made of opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold.

Yashoda Chastises Her Foster Son, the Youthful Krishna, page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana

Unknown artist · c. 1600

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Palette

Tan
49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Lichen
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Ash
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Rust
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.1:1
Saffron
4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.7:1
Slate blue
1% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.1:1

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, Bikaner
Date
c. 1600
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold
Size
Paper: 24.2 × 30 cm (9 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.); Image: 17.2 × 24.6 cm (6 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)
Place
India
Period
16th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 32

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by the Asian Art Council, an anonymous donor, Elizabeth Plotnick, Mack Trapp, Betty Seid, Jay Reese, Randy Lynch, George Bergland, Nancie and Bruce Dunn, Charles Mottier, Allen R. Smart, James D. Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III; Oriental Purchase Fund in honor of the Presidency of H. George Mann (2004-2007). 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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