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Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: frontispiece title by Lu Hui

A work made of album leaf; ink on paper.

Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: frontispiece title by Lu Hui

Lu Hui · Dated 1912

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Palette

Linen
70% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

Graphite
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1

Smoke
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

Silver
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Ash
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

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: Lu Hui
Date: Dated 1912
Type: Painting
Medium: Album leaf; ink on paper
Size: 31 × 40.7 cm (12 × 16 in.)
Place: China
Period: 20th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 75, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel M. Nickerson 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