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A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes, and Hourglass

Edwaert Collier · 1662

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 34% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Bistre
 26% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Warm grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

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
Edwaert Collier
Date
1662
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
98 × 129.7 cm (38 1/2 × 51 in.); Framed: 122 × 152.4 cm (48 × 60 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
Baroque · 17th century
Themes
Still life · Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham; Rhoades Foundation and Julius Lewis Acquisition Endowment Fund; European Painting Discretionary 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

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