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Pleasures of the Hunt by North India, Punjab Hills, Kangra artist

Pleasures of the Hunt

North India, Punjab Hills, Kangra artist · ca. 1800

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Palette

Putty
 38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.6:1
Iron
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Lichen
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.4:1
Pale blue-grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1
Coral
 6% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.8:1
Saffron
 1% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.0:1

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
North India, Punjab Hills, Kangra artist
Date
ca. 1800
Type
Painting
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
Size
Image: 9 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (25.1 x 35.8 cm) Framed: 16 5/16 x 21 3/8 in. (41.4 x 54.3 cm)
Place
North India, Punjab Hills, Kangra
Period
18th century
Themes
Dogs · Horses
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1810: 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

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