The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

Northern India, Guler, Himachal Pradesh artist · ca. 1740

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Blue-grey
31% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1

Madder
27% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1

Chalk
23% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.3:1

Green earth
12% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

Pale gold
6% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.2:1

Marigold
1% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.4:1

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: Northern India, Guler, Himachal Pradesh artist
Date: ca. 1740
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Size: Page: 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (21.6 x 32.4 cm) Image: 7 1/16 x 11 1/4 in. (17.9 x 28.6 cm)
Place: Northern India, Guler, Himachal Pradesh
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Blue · lightness 60, colourfulness 28

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

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