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A work made of etching on buff laid paper.

Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1642

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Palette

Pale stone
 59% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Warm grey
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Ivory
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.3:1
Putty
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.8:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

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. 1642
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on buff laid paper
Size
Image: 6.2 × 5.8 cm (2 1/2 × 2 5/16 in.); Plate: 9.3 × 6.2 cm (3 11/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 10.5 × 7.3 cm (4 3/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 75, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial 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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