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

Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man)

Lucas van Leyden · c. 1514

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Palette

Ash
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1
Oyster
 24% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1
Warm grey
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Graphite
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1

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
Lucas van Leyden
Netherlandish, c. 1494-1533
Date
c. 1514
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
Size
41.9 × 29.2 cm (16 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Harold Joachim Endowment. 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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