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A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Unknown artist · c. 1705–1710

Palette

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
Rajasthan, Mewar, Udaipur, attributed to the “Stipple Master” (active c. 1692-c. 1715)

Date

c. 1705–1710

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

Outermost border: 48.5 × 58.7 cm (19 × 23 in.); Image: 45 × 56 cm (17 3/4 × 22 in.)

Place

India

Period

17th century

Themes

Portraits

Main colour

Green · lightness 56, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, Lacy Armour Fund, James and Marilynn Alsdorf Acquisition Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules