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Landscape and Figure, from an album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu 山水册页

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

Landscape and Figure, from an album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu 山水册页

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

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Palette

Oyster
41% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1

Linen
19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.2:1

Silver
17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1

Warm grey
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Smoke
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Salmon
0% of the image
Pink · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Chinese, 1823-1896
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
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 76, colourfulness 9

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