Guru Dragpo, Padmasambhava’s Fierce Emanation

Tibet artist · 18th century

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Copper
37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Raw umber
30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Smoke
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Madder
8% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.8:1

Tan
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

Linen
3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

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: Tibet artist
Date: 18th century
Type: Painting
Medium: Distemper on cotton
Size: Image: 24 in. × 17 1/2 in. (61 × 44.5 cm) Framed: 33 1/16 × 25 13/16 in. (84 × 65.5 cm)
Place: Tibet
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 27

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2015. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Guru Dragpo, Padmasambhava’s Fierce Emanation

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