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A work made of oil on panel.

Lamentation over the Body of Christ

Gerard David · c. 1500

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Palette

Raw umber
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Bistre
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1
Soot
 21% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1
Cinnamon
 11% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.1:1
Blue-grey
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1
Ash
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1

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
Gerard David
Date
c. 1500
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
55.1 × 62.8 cm (21 1/2 × 24 1/2 in.); Framed: 66.7 × 74.3 × 7.7 cm (26 1/4 × 29 1/4 × 3 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
15th century
Themes
Mountains · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 34, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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