Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Colors in this work

Artist: Mughal
Date: c. 1800
Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 26.6 × 16.6 cm (10 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Outermost border: 30.5 × 20.2 cm (12 × 8 in.); Paper: 31.1 × 20.8 cm (12 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
Origin: India
Holding institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Palette: Sage Plaster · Green family · #A2AC68 · 57%

Pine Needle · Green family · #384226 · 11%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A7B4A7 · 8%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #8D7F3E · 7%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #A9B18E · 5%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #736533 · 5%

Faded Gilt · Yellow family · #BB9D67 · 3%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #E1E0C9 · 2%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D1CAA5 · 1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #4D3A16 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #BC907F · <1%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #69342C · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A3B3B1 · <1%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A69418 · <1%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #4D4C55 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #98B59F · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #3F4A4C · <1%

Pine Needle · Green family · #2D5C08 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Kate S. Buckingham Fund

9 tags

Individual Portrait Both · 99%

The title identifies Emperor Jahangir, and the image visibly presents a single individualized sitter in a formal full-length portrait.
Royalty and Aristocracy Both · 99%

The catalog identifies the sitter as an emperor, while the image conveys elevated status through imperial dress, jewelry, weapons, halo, and a raised platform.
Landscapes Visual · 88%

The setting includes a broad green outdoor landscape with vegetation, atmospheric distance, and numerous small figures in the middle and far background.

Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%

The costume, jewelry, platform, weapons, halo, and surrounding borders are rendered with extensive intricate ornament and repeating vegetal patterns.

Painting Both · 99%

The catalog classifies the work as a painting, and the image visibly consists of painted color, line, and patterned detail.
Watercolor Metadata · 99%

The catalog specifies opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Work on Paper Both · 99%

The catalog identifies paper as the support, and the image shows a painted sheet with an outer border.

Indian Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog gives India as the place of origin and identifies the artist as Mughal.

Gold Both · 98%

Gold is specified in the catalog medium, and gold-toned passages are visibly prominent in the costume, halo, platform, jewelry, and borders.

anonymous. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/62243

Original image ↗ 2,004 × 3,000 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed