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A work made of oil on canvas.

Kitchen Scene

Diego Velázquez · 1618–20

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Palette

Bistre
 92% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.4:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1
Dark olive
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Raw umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Warm grey
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Diego Velázquez
Date
1618–20
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
55.9 × 104.2 cm (21 7/8 × 41 1/8 in.); Framed: 74.9 × 125.1 × 7.3 cm (29 1/2 × 49 1/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
Baroque · 17th century
Themes
Still life · Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 16, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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