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A work made of pen and black ink on ivory laid paper.

Young Bull

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508

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Palette

Bone white
 83% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.6:1
Pale stone
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1
Stone
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Iron
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

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. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and black ink on ivory laid paper
Size
17.5 × 14 cm (6 15/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
16th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 86, 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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