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Portrait of an Aged Courtier

Mughal · c. 1680

Palette

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

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Artist

Mughal
Mughal, probably Deccan

Date

c. 1680

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

Image: 16.2 × 9.4 cm (6 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.); Border: 21.6 × 14.8 cm (8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.); Paper: 33.4 × 20.5 cm (13 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Place

India

Period

17th century

Themes

Portraits

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 34

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Guy H. Mitchell. 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