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Summer Mountains by Qu Ding

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding · ca. 1050

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Palette

Sepia
 55% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1
Raw umber
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1
Sand
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Lamp black
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.3:1
Dark chocolate
 1% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.7:1

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
Qu Ding
Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056
Date
ca. 1050
Type
Painting
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Size
Image: 17 7/8 × 45 3/8 in. (45.4 × 115.3 cm) Overall with mounting: 18 1/4 in. × 23 ft. 2 in. (46.4 × 706.1 cm)
Place
China
Period
11th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973. 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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