Breakfast Still Life

Willem Claesz. Heda · 1647

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Sepia
38% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

Raw umber
32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

Dark chocolate
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1

Mushroom
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

Walnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.7:1

Umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

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

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Artist: Willem Claesz. Heda
Date: 1647
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 52 × 80.1 × 0.9 cm (20 1/2 × 31 9/16 × 3/8 in.); Framed: 69.9 × 97.8 × 7 cm (27 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: Baroque · 17th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 35, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Donald and Carol Asher. 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

Breakfast Still Life

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