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A work made of oil on panel.

The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen · c. 1520

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Palette

Soot
 36% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Umber
 35% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1
Ash
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Stone
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Ochre
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

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
Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen
Date
c. 1520
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
34 × 27.4 cm (13 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.); Framed: 42.6 × 35 × 4.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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