African Chief

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal · 1870

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Palette

Lamp black
35% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.0:1

Stone
26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

Dark olive
21% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1

Lavender grey
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Pewter
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Silver
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

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: Mariano Fortuny y Marsal
Date: 1870
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41 × 32.9 cm (16 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.); Framed: 68.6 × 61 × 8.9 cm (27 × 24 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: Spain
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 34, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

African Chief

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