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A work made of handscroll; ink on paper.

Return to Stone Lake 石湖歸棹圖

Shen Zhou · Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1466

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Palette

Linen
 80% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1
Putty
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Lamp black
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.4:1
Graphite
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

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
Shen Zhou
Chinese, 1427-1509
Date
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1466
Type
Painting
Medium
Handscroll; ink on paper
Size
26.1 × 231.2 cm (10 1/4 × 91 in.)
Place
China
Period
15th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 80, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund. 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

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