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A work made of opaque watercolor on cotton.

Indian Buddhist Master Shantarakshita (725-788 CE), Included with a Seven-Part Set of the Sixteen Arhats (Elders)

Unknown artist · 19th century

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Palette

Taupe
 31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Silver
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Charcoal
 20% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1
Cinnamon
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Slate
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

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
Unknown artist
Date
19th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor on cotton
Size
Image: 44.6 × 31.2 cm (17 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Overall: 110 × 63.5 cm (43 5/16 × 25 in.)
Place
Tibet
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 51, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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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