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Two lovers in a pavilion, from an Amarushataka (Hundred poems of Amaru), or an unidentified erotic series

unknown · ca. 1680

Palette

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

unknown

Date

ca. 1680

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

H x W (overall): 21 × 15.9 cm (8 1/4 × 6 1/4 in)

Place

Malwa, Madhya Pradesh state, India

Period

17th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 54, colourfulness 27

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler), Smithsonian. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Smithsonian Open Access marks it CC0 (descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access=CC0; online_media.media[0].usage.a). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1680: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (Smithsonian Open Access usage is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules