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A work made of watercolor, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper.

Portrait of an Artist or Scholar

Mughal · 17th century

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Palette

Parchment
 60% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.5:1
Straw
 32% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Khaki
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Apricot
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.8:1

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

Details

Artist
Mughal
Date
17th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Size
Image: 17.6 × 9.2 cm (6 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Outermost Border: 20.8 × 12.5 cm (8 3/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.3 × 19.5 cm (10 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
Place
India
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 78, colourfulness 26

Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud Buckingham Memorial 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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