Hanuman Conversing
India (Tamil Nadu) artist · 11th century
Palette
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 (Tamil Nadu) artist
- Date
- 11th century
- Type
- Decorative arts & sculpture
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Size
- H. 25 3/8 in. (64.5 cm); W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
- Place
- India (Tamil Nadu)
- Period
- 10th century
- Main colour
- Grey · lightness 42, colourfulness 1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequests of Mary Clarke Thompson, Fanny Shapiro, Susan Dwight Bliss, Isaac D. Fletcher, William Gedney Beatty, John L. Cadwalader and Kate Read Blacque, Gifts of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, Ida H. Ogilvie, Samuel T. Peters and H. R. Bishop, F. C. Bishop and O. M. Bishop, Rogers, Seymour and Fletcher Funds, and other gifts, funds and bequests from various donors, by exchange, 1982. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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