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Mahasiddha Jnanatapa by Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery artist

Mahasiddha Jnanatapa

Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery artist · ca. 1350

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Palette

Raw umber
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Sepia
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Tan
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Brick
 15% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.5:1
Lamp black
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.7:1
Graphite
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

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

Details

Artist
Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery artist
Date
ca. 1350
Type
Painting
Medium
Distemper on cloth
Size
Image: H. 27 in. (68.6 cm); W. 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm) Framed: H. 48 in. (121.9 cm); W. 33 in. (83.8 cm); D. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Place
Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery
Period
14th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 20

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1987. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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