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Calligraphy Accompanying Xugu's Painting

A work made of album of 25 leaves; ink and light color on paper.

Calligraphy Accompanying Xugu's Painting

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1897

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Palette

Shell pink
58% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1

Parchment
29% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1

Silver
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Warm grey
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

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: Xu Gu
Date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1897
Type: Painting
Medium: Album of 25 leaves; ink and light color on paper
Size: Each leaf: 30.5 × 36.3 cm (12 × 14 1/4 in.)
Place: China
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 83, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair. 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