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A work made of oil on copper.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Denys Calvaert · c. 1610

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Palette

Soot
 60% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1
Iron
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Stone
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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
Denys Calvaert
Date
c. 1610
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on copper
Size
23.5 × 18.1 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Framed: 40.6 × 35.6 × 7.6 cm (16 × 14 × 3 in.)
Place
Flanders
Period
17th century
Themes
Landscapes · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 23, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Edward and Inge Maser Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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