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

Dancer with a Maple Branch

Katsukawa Shunshō · About 1780-90

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Palette

Tan
 64% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Caramel
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Putty
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1
Fawn
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Raw umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Bistre
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1

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
Katsukawa Shunshō
Japanese, 1726-1792
Date
About 1780-90
Type
Painting
Medium
Hanging scroll; Ink, color, and gold on paper
Size
58.7 × 28.1 cm (23 1/8 × 11 1/16 in.); Overall with mount and knobs: 147.8 × 43.8 cm (58 3/16 × 17 1/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 54, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection. 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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