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A work made of etching on ivory laid paper.

Nude Man Seated before a Curtain

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1646

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Palette

Pale stone
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.2:1
Mushroom
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Bone white
 11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Bistre
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
1646
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Size
Image/plate: 16.5 × 9.4 cm (6 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.); Sheet: 16.7 × 9.8 cm (6 5/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Bernard F. Rogers 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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