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Police Superintendant's Party: A Gift of Food and Drink

Police Superintendant's Party: A Gift of Food and Drink

Yoshitoshi · September 1877

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Palette

Mushroom
44% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Taupe
30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Madder
12% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.6:1

Sand
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

Bone white
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1

Steel blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1

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: Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892
Date: September 1877
Type: Print
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Size: 13 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (34.3 x 72.4 cm)
Place: Japan
Period: Meiji period · 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 58, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1892: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1963. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules