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Still Life with Ostrich Egg Cup and the Whitfield Heirlooms

Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten · c. 1670

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Palette

Lamp black
 84% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Bistre
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.7:1
Coffee
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.7:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.9:1

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
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
Date
c. 1670
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
65.4 × 75.6 cm (25 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.); Framed: 77.2 × 88.3 × 4.5 cm (30 3/8 × 34 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
17th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Black · lightness 11, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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