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A work made of oil on panel.

Alpheus and Arethusa

Moses van Uyttenbroeck · 1626

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Palette

Lamp black
42% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Stone
22% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.8:1
Dark olive
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.9:1
Olive brown
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.3:1
Walnut
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.8:1
Chestnut
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

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
Moses van Uyttenbroeck
Date
1626
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
45 × 58 cm (17 3/4 × 22 7/8 in.); Framed: 45.1 × 57.8 × 6.4 cm (17 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
17th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Myths and legends
Main colour
Green · lightness 26, colourfulness 12

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

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