Bust painting of a long-faced, light-skinned Virgin Mary crying, her bloodshot eyes looking downward. Draped white fabric surrounds her face below a blue black robe. The background is painted gold with black flecks.

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)

Workshop of Dieric Bouts · c. 1490

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Palette

Lamp black
39% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.4:1

Dark ochre
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1

Fawn
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Caramel
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Umber
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Bistre
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.2:1

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: Workshop of Dieric Bouts
Date: c. 1490
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 38.7 × 30.3 cm (15 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.); Framed: 43.2 × 34 × 4.8 cm (17 × 13 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: Renaissance · 15th century
Themes: Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Chester D. Tripp Fund; Chester D. Tripp Endowment; through prior acquisition of Max and Leola Epstein. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)

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