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A work made of black ink with gold on paper.

Mother and Child

Mughal · c. 1625

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Palette

Spruce
 55% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.6:1
Sand
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Khaki
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Olive brown
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Green earth
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1
Ivory
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.4:1

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. 1625
Type
Painting
Medium
Black ink with gold on paper
Size
Image: 9.8 × 7.6 cm (3 7/8 × 3 in.); Outermost border: 23.2 × 16.3 cm (9 1/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Paper: 24.2 × 17.2 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)
Place
India
Period
17th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Green · lightness 48, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel M. Nickerson 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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