Portrait of a Man

Flemish · c. 1575

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Lamp black
36% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.7:1

Bistre
32% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1

Sepia
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1

Mushroom
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1

Taupe
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Silver
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

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: Flemish
Date: c. 1575
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 46.8 × 33.9 cm (18 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 48.6 × 5.1 cm (24 × 19 1/8 × 2 in.)
Place: Flanders
Period: 16th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel P. Avery Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Portrait of a Man

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