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Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

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Palette

Mushroom
38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1

Parchment
38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1

Sepia
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

Pearl grey
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1

Dark chocolate
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.6:1

Terracotta
1% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.5:1

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: Gong Xian
Chinese, 1619–1689
Date: 1688
Type: Painting
Medium: Fifteen leaves from an album (1980.516.2a–c and 1981.4.1a–o) of eighteen leaves
Size: 10 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (27.3 x 41 cm)
Place: China
Period: 17th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1981. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules