Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher

Spanish · c. 1630

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Palette

Lamp black
46% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1

Dark chocolate
27% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1

Walnut
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1

Caramel
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Dark olive
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.4:1

Olive brown
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1

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: Spanish
Date: c. 1630
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 87.7 × 75 cm (34 1/2 × 29 1/2 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 95.3 × 5.1 cm (33 × 37 1/2 × 2 in.)
Place: Spain
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 14, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift in memory of Samuel Gans from his heirs. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher

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