Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?) artist · late 18th century

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Sepia
35% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

Bronze
31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Silver
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

Tan
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Pale gold
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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: India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?) artist
Date: late 18th century
Type: Print
Medium: Painted and printed gold and silver leaf and opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton
Size: 97 5/8 x 103 1/8 in. (248 x 262 cm)
Place: India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?)
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 48, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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