Maharaja Sital Dev in Devotion

India (Punjab Hills, Basohli) artist · ca. 1690

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Linen
40% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1

Coral
31% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.7:1

Dusty rose
15% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.8:1

Honey
12% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.0:1

Salmon
1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 7.2:1

Tan
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

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

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Artist: India (Punjab Hills, Basohli) artist
Date: ca. 1690
Type: Painting
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper
Size: Image: 5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (14.3 x 11.7 cm) Page: 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (18.4 x 15.9 cm)
Place: India (Punjab Hills, Basohli)
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Red · lightness 70, colourfulness 31

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2000. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1700: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Maharaja Sital Dev in Devotion

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