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

Mahavira Gives Away his Possessions, from a copy of the Kalpasutra

Unknown artist · c. 1480-1490

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Palette

Taupe
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Fawn
 36% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1
Terracotta
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1
Cream
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Smoke
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Slate blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Unknown artist
Gujarat
Date
c. 1480-1490
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
Size
Image: 9.6 × 6.6 cm (3 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.); Paper: 11.2 × 23.3 cm (4 3/8 × 9 3/16 in.)
Place
India
Period
15th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Everett and Ann McNear Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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