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The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night by Sravana

The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night

Sravana · c. 1560

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Palette

Putty
 74% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Green earth
 11% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Terracotta
 6% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Slate blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.1:1
Brick
 2% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Sravana
Indian
Date
c. 1560
Type
Painting
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Size
Painting only: 11.3 x 10.1 cm (4 7/16 x 4 in.)
Place
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Period
16th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Birds
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 19

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Made by Sravana (death year unrecorded), made by 1565: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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