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A work made of etching and drypoint on white laid paper.

Christ Carried to the Tomb

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1645

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Palette

Oyster
 39% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1
Putty
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1
Mushroom
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Bone white
 14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Iron
 1% of the image
Grey · 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. 1645
Type
Print
Medium
Etching and drypoint on white laid paper
Size
Image/plate: 12.9 × 10.7 cm (5 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet: 13.3 × 11.3 cm (5 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 76, colourfulness 10

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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