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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

Oyster
 44% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.6:1
Pale stone
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1
Ash
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Warm grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Pewter
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

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
Grey · lightness 78, colourfulness 7

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

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