The sage-physician Dhanvantari, folio from the “Sixth” Bhagavata Purana series, also known as the “small” Guler-Basohli series

Attributed to Manaku · ca. 1735-1740

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Palette

Burnt orange
47% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.8:1

Brick
26% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.7:1

Oyster
19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1

Ochre
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Blue-grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

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

Details

Artist: Attributed to Manaku
1700–1760
Date: ca. 1735-1740
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size: H x W (overall): 20.7 × 31.1 cm (8 1/8 × 12 1/4 in)
Place: Guler, Himachal Pradesh state, India
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Orange · lightness 56, colourfulness 43

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: Artist died 1760: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1831. Last checked 2026-10-31 (Smithsonian Open Access usage is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules