Venus, Cupid and Ceres

Cornelis van Haarlem · 1604

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Soot
44% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1

Tan
30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Slate
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1

Taupe
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Sepia
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1

Chestnut
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1

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

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Artist: Cornelis van Haarlem
Date: 1604
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 96.7 × 109.2 cm (38 × 43 in.); Framed: 121.3 × 134.7 × 7.7 cm (47 3/4 × 53 × 3 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: Mannerism · 17th century
Themes: Myths and legends
Main colour: Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Old Masters Society Fund. 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

Venus, Cupid and Ceres

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