A work made of fan painting; ink on gold paper.

Poem in Cursive Script

Zhu Yunming · 1461-1527

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Palette

Chalk
48% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.2:1

Sand
31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1

Raw umber
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

Tan
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Iron
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1

Pale stone
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.9:1

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

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Artist: Zhu Yunming
Date: 1461-1527
Type: Painting
Medium: Fan painting; ink on gold paper
Size: Upper width: 19 1/2" Lower width: 7-1/16" Rib length: 7-1/8"
Place: China
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Poem in Cursive Script

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