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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap

German · c. 1480

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 64% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1
Tan
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Sepia
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Carmine
 5% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.0:1
Oxblood
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.4:1

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
German
Date
c. 1480
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
Panel: 29.5 × 21.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
15th century
Themes
Portraits · Flowers
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Old Masters Society, C. Harker and Mae Svoboda Rhodes, and purchased with funds provided by Barbara Danielson. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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