Portrait of a Lady

Michele Tosini, called Michele di Ridolfo · c. 1555

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Soot
40% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1

Mushroom
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

Moss
16% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.2:1

Brick
12% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.7:1

Sepia
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Coffee
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.3:1

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: Michele Tosini, called Michele di Ridolfo
Date: c. 1555
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 55.8 × 42.7 cm (22 × 16 3/4 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 56.6 × 6.1 cm (27 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 16th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 28, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Portrait of a Lady

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