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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Music Lesson

Jacob Ochtervelt · 1671

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Palette

Sepia
 48% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Soot
 27% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Bistre
 20% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Bronze
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Dark olive
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.7:1

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
Jacob Ochtervelt
Date
1671
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
80.2 × 65.5 cm (31 × 25 3/16 in.); Framed: 98.4 × 81.6 × 6.4 cm (38 3/4 × 32 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Dogs · Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 11

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 (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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