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A Lady Playing the Tanpura by India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh) artist

A Lady Playing the Tanpura

India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh) artist · ca. 1735

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Palette

Khaki
 47% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1
Olive brown
 22% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.7:1
Dark ochre
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Cinnamon
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Soot
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Copper
 2% 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

Details

Artist
India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh) artist
Date
ca. 1735
Type
Painting
Medium
Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper
Size
18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm)
Place
India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh)
Period
18th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 49, colourfulness 29

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1996. 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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