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

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

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

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

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Palette

Silver
45% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1

Oyster
31% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1

Ash
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Bone white
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1

Warm grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Smoke
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

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 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
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Grey · lightness 77, colourfulness 8

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