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A work made of engraving in black on ivory laid paper.

Abigail Before David

Lucas van Leyden · c. 1507

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Palette

Chalk
 33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1
Pale stone
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1
Oyster
 23% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.7:1
Stone
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

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
Lucas van Leyden
Netherlandish, c. 1494-1533
Date
c. 1507
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Size
Image/sheet, trimmed to platemark: 27.3 × 19.6 cm (10 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 79, colourfulness 8

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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