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Isfandiyar slays Arjasp, the king of Turan, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) by Haidar Kashmiri

Isfandiyar slays Arjasp, the king of Turan, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Haidar Kashmiri · 1600–1605

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Palette

Sand
 71% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Raw umber
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Sage
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1
Terracotta
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1
Slate blue
 2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.1:1
Persimmon
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Haidar Kashmiri
Indian, active late 1500s-early 1600s
Date
1600–1605
Type
Painting
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Size
Page: 36.7 x 24.4 cm (14 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Place
Mughal India
Period
16th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 28

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 Haidar Kashmiri (death year unrecorded), made by 1605: 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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