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A work made of oil on panel.

The Shadow of Death

William Holman Hunt · 1873-74

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Palette

Umber
 41% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1
Caramel
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Coffee
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.9:1
Deep teal
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Burnt sienna
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.0:1

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
William Holman Hunt
Date
1873-74
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
104.5 × 82 cm (41 × 32 1/4 in.); Framed: 137.2 × 115.9 × 9.6 cm (54 × 45 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 44, colourfulness 27

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham Collection. 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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