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Gibbons in a Landscape by Sesson Shukei

Gibbons in a Landscape

Sesson Shukei · ca. 1570

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Palette

Fawn
 68% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Lamp black
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.8:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1

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
Sesson Shukei
ca. 1504–ca. 1589
Date
ca. 1570
Type
Painting
Medium
Pair of six-panel screens; ink on paper
Size
Image (each screen): 62 in. x 11 ft. 5 in. (157.5 x 348 cm)
Place
Japan
Period
16th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 52, colourfulness 20

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation, Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, and Florence and Herbert Irving Gifts, 1992. 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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