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A work made of etching on ivory laid paper.

Peasant Family on the Tramp

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1652

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Palette

Linen
 72% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.1:1
Pale stone
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1
Putty
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Print
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Size
Plate: 11.4 × 9.3 cm (4 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.); Sheet: 11.6 × 9.4 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 8

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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