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A work made of oil on panel.

The Nativity

Master of the Historia Friderici et Maximiliani · 1507–10

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Palette

Dark olive
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1
Bronze
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Khaki
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Old gold
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.7:1
Brick
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.3:1

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
Master of the Historia Friderici et Maximiliani
Date
1507–10
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
111.4 × 74.1 cm (44 5/8 × 29 3/16 in.); Framed: 120.4 × 82.6 × 3.9 cm (47 3/8 × 32 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Place
Austria
Period
16th century
Themes
Flowers · Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 39, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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