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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Courtesan on White Elephant

Suzuki Harunobu · 1765

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Palette

Putty
 77% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Pale stone
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Biscuit
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Sand
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Linen
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

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
Suzuki Harunobu
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770
Date
1765
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Size
28 × 19.7 cm (11 × 7 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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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