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A work made of woodcut in black on ivory laid paper.

The Third Knot

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1507

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Palette

Oyster
 36% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1
Taupe
 24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Iron
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Putty
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Stone
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

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
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528
Date
c. 1507
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 27.3 × 21.2 cm (10 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 22.7 cm (11 3/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
16th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 58, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham 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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