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A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair

Henry Raeburn · 1810–20

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Palette

Lamp black
 86% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.6:1
Charcoal
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Pearl grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.2:1
Ash
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Pewter
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Slate
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Henry Raeburn
Date
1810–20
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
73.6 × 62.8 cm (29 × 24 3/4 in.); Framed: 96.6 × 84.5 × 8.3 cm (38 × 33 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
Scotland
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 11, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick. 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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