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A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of an Officer

Italian · c. 1650

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Palette

Iron
40% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1
Charcoal
19% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.6:1
Lamp black
13% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.3:1
Ash
11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Smoke
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Pearl grey
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.3:1

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
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. Licence rules

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