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A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Portrait of a Beauty

Mughal · 17th century

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Palette

Biscuit
 63% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Khaki
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Graphite
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.5:1
Sepia
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.6:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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

Details

Artist
Mughal
Date
17th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size
Image: 22.4 × 16.6 cm (8 13/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Outermost Border: 41.8 × 26.7 (16 3/8 × 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 44 × 28.6 cm (17 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Place
India
Period
Mughal painting · 17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, Kemp Benevolent Fund. 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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