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A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Mughal · c. 1800

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Palette

Khaki
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Pistachio
 30% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.9:1
Dark olive
 11% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.6:1
Duck egg
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Celadon
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.6:1
Parchment
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.4:1

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
c. 1800
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size
Image: 26.6 × 16.6 cm (10 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Outermost border: 30.5 × 20.2 cm (12 × 8 in.); Paper: 31.1 × 20.8 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
Place
India
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Green · lightness 62, colourfulness 34

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham 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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