A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)

Basavana · c. 1589; outer margins added c. mid-1900s

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Palette

Putty
36% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1

Taupe
26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Terracotta
15% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.5:1

Tan
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Smoke
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Persimmon
1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.2:1

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

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Artist: Basavana
Indian, active c. 1560–1600
Date: c. 1589; outer margins added c. mid-1900s
Type: Painting
Medium: Gum tempera and gold on paper
Size: Page: 28 x 18.1 cm (11 x 7 1/8 in.)
Place: India, Mughal, 16th century
Period: 16th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 59, colourfulness 21

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Artist died 1600: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1671. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)

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