One of a Pair of Manuscript Covers from the Glorification of the Great Goddess (Devimahatmya)
Unknown artist · 18th century
Palette
Dark ochre
Olive brown
Burnt sienna
Bone white
Bistre
Putty
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
- 18th century
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Pigments and metallic paint on wood
- Size
- 1.1 × 48.8 × 11.7 cm (3/8 × 19 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Place
- Nepal
- Period
- 18th century
- Main colour
- Brown · lightness 43, colourfulness 32
Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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