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A work made of hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper.

Man with Staff by a Stream

Hua Yan · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

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Palette

Smoke
 41% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Warm grey
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Stone
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.1:1

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
Hua Yan
Chinese, 1682-c. 1765
Date
Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Type
Painting
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Size
149.9 × 54.7 cm (59 × 21 1/2 in.)
Place
China
Period
18th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 53, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. 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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