Portrait of a Gentleman

Venetian · c. 1545

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Lamp black
68% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.4:1

Soot
20% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1

Ink
6% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1

Pine
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1

Biscuit
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

Dark olive
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1

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: Venetian
Date: c. 1545
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 89.8 × 71.6 cm (35 3/8 × 28 3/16 in.); Framed: 127 × 109.3 × 8.9 cm (50 × 43 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 16th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 9, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. Chester D. Tripp. 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

Portrait of a Gentleman

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