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A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of a Man

Antonio María Esquivel · 1843

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Palette

Soot
 78% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.3:1
Charcoal
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1
Pewter
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Ash
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Silver
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Slate
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1

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
Antonio María Esquivel
Date
1843
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
73 × 56.6 cm (28 3/4 × 22 1/4 in.); Framed: 86.1 × 70.5 × 10.2 cm (33 7/8 × 27 3/4 × 4 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick. 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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