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Young Clergyman Reading

Martinus Rørbye · 1836

Palette

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

Martinus Rørbye

Date

1836

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

39 × 27.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.); Framed: 48.3 × 36.9 cm (19 × 14 1/2 in.)

Place

Denmark

Period

19th century

Themes

Portraits · Landscapes · Interiors · Reading and letters

Main colour

Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland. 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