The God Indra Worships Ganesha, folio from the Tehri Garhwal series of the Gita Govinda
India, Punjab Hills, Kingdom of Kangra or Guler artist · ca. 1775–80
Palette
Olive
Putty
Scarlet
Dark olive
Brick
Persimmon
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
- India, Punjab Hills, Kingdom of Kangra or Guler artist
- Date
- ca. 1775–80
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Size
- 9 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (25 × 17.4 cm)
- Place
- India, Punjab Hills, Kingdom of Kangra or Guler
- Period
- 18th century
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 52, colourfulness 35
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 2021. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1805: 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
