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Penitent Saint Peter

Jusepe de Ribera · c. 1630

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Palette

Lamp black
 72% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.0:1
Dark chocolate
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1
Raw umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Fawn
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Dark olive
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1

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

Details

Artist
Jusepe de Ribera
Date
c. 1630
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
126.5 × 97 cm (49 3/4 × 38 1/4 in.); Framed: 150.2 × 121.3 × 7 cm (59 1/8 × 47 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
Baroque · 17th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 7, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Goldabelle Macomb Finn Fund, with additional support from friends of the European Painting Department, Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Mrs. Edward McCormick Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gidwitz, Josephine and John J. Louis, Jr., the Otto L. and Hazel T. Rhoades Fund and Mrs. George B. Young; L.L. A.S. Coburn Endowment. 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

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