Portrait of an Officer
Italian · c. 1650
Palette
Iron
Charcoal
Lamp black
Ash
Smoke
Pearl grey
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
- Italian
- Date
- c. 1650
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 71.1 × 61.7 cm (28 1/4 × 24 1/4 in.); Framed: 98.8 × 87 × 7.7 cm (38 7/8 × 34 1/4 × 3 in.)
- Place
- Italy
- Period
- 17th century
- Themes
- Portraits
- Main colour
- Grey · lightness 34, colourfulness 0
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 (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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