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

Emperor Song Taizu Visiting Scholar on Snowy Night

Unknown artist · late 19th century

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Palette

Stone
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Taupe
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Pale stone
 24% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.8:1
Putty
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Chalk
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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
Unknown artist
Date
late 19th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Size
30.5 × 126.4 cm (12 × 49 3/4 in.)
Place
China
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Winter and snow
Main colour
Brown · lightness 66, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair. 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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