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Beauty Holding a Flower

Mughal · Mid–17th century

Palette

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

Mughal

Date

Mid–17th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

Size

Image: 15.4 × 8.6 cm (6 3/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Outermost border: 19.1 × 122 cm (7 1/2 × 4 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.6 × 17 cm (10 7/8 × 6 11/16 in.)

Place

India

Period

17th century

Themes

Flowers

Main colour

White & cream · lightness 81, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud 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