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Emperor Xuanzong's flight to Shu

Unidentified artist · mid-12th 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

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Artist

Unidentified artist

Date

mid-12th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

Size

Image: 44 3/4 × 32 5/8 in. (113.7 × 82.9 cm) Overall with mounting: 95 1/2 × 54 in. (242.6 × 137.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 57 1/2 × 95 1/2 in. (146.1 × 242.6 cm)

Place

China

Period

12th century

Themes

Landscapes · Horses

Main colour

Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 18

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules