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A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Holi Festival in a Walled Garden with Celebrants

Unknown artist · c. 1764

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Palette

Putty
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1
Honey
 20% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.9:1
Sand
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Old gold
 6% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.2:1
Green earth
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1
Ivory
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1

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
Unknown artist
West Bengal, Murshidabad
Date
c. 1764
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size
47 × 63.5 cm (18 5/8 × 25 1/8 in.)
Place
Murshidabad
Period
18th century
Themes
Gardens
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 29

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Robert C. Gluth in honor of Marilynn Alsdorf, Louise A. Lutz Fund, James and Marilynn Alsdorf Acquisition Fund, Frederick W. Gookin Memorial 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

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