A work made of opaque watercolor and ink on paper.

Alexander Comforts the Dying Darius, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Islamic · Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), c.1480/90

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Palette

Ivory
52% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1

Lichen
42% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.2:1

Smoke
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Slate
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

Slate blue
1% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.0:1

Cinnamon
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

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: Islamic
Turkmen style
Date: Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), c.1480/90
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Size: Image: 10.3 × 14.4 cm (4 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.); Page: 34 × 21.6 cm (13 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Place: Iran
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 74, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Ann McNear Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-28); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Alexander Comforts the Dying Darius, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

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