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A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper.

Kostverloren Castle in Decay

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1652

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Palette

Biscuit
 66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Tan
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Raw umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Chalk
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.6:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Linen
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
c. 1652
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper
Size
10.9 × 17.5 cm (4 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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

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