Unknown artist (Mughal, India), Portrait of a Princess, 17th/18th century. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 32.1 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.). Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. Public domain (CC0).

Portrait of a Princess

Unknown artist (Mughal, India), 17th/18th century. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Profile
Soft light
Painting

Bust-length profile facing left, with flat, even light and fine line drawing the features against a gray ground.

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The image is free to use for any purpose: the museum has released it into the public domain.

Value studies

Portrait of a Princess as a study in 2 values — **Notan, 2 values.** Split at value 6: 63% of the picture is dark and 37% light.

Portrait of a Princess as a study in 3 values — **3 values.** 32% dark (values 0 to 5.1), 47% middle (5.1 to 6.7) and 21% light (6.7 to 10).

Portrait of a Princess as a study in 5 values — **5 values.** From darkest to lightest: 12%, 28%, 30%, 19% and 10% of the picture.

Split at the picture's natural breaks between light and dark, with Simplify at 5, as in the value study maker. Values run from 0 (black) to 10 (white).

Palette

#8C7E60Value 5.3, warm
26%
#75664EValue 4.4, warm
20%
#AB9876Value 6.4, warm
15%
#D5C09EValue 7.9, warm
11%
#A37B58Value 5.5, warm
9%
#C5A56BValue 6.9, warm
9%
#54493AValue 3.2, warm
7%
#E9E9E0Value 9.2, neutral
3%

The 8 main colors run from value 3.2 to 9.2: 7 warm and 1 neutral. See warm and cool colors for how the labels are worked out.

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