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Courtesans and Attendants Making a Giant Snowball by Utagawa Toyokuni I

Courtesans and Attendants Making a Giant Snowball

Utagawa Toyokuni I · ca. 1796

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Palette

Putty
 52% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1
Cream
 25% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Dusty rose
 9% of the image
Pink · text contrast 6.4:1
Taupe
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Salmon
 5% of the image
Pink · text contrast 8.3:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

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
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Japanese, 1769–1825
Date
ca. 1796
Type
Print
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Size
Image: 14 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (36.8 × 74.9 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 18th century
Themes
Winter and snow
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 20

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1825: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1896. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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