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Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

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

Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

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Palette

Shell pink
61% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

Linen
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.2:1

Silver
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

Warm grey
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Ivory
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1

Smoke
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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: Xu Gu
Date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96
Type: Painting
Medium: Album leaves; ink and 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 10

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