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A painting in saturated, rich tones of a young woman holding a naked infant with a halo as an older woman tends to them, another small and naked child at her feet. The young woman wears robes of bright pink, while the older woman wears a vivid green top and yellow skirt.

Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist

Jacopino del Conte · 1535–40

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Palette

Dark olive
 22% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.8:1
Soot
 21% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1
Walnut
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.6:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1
Brick
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Dark ochre
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Jacopino del Conte
Date
1535–40
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
165.5 × 126.7 × 5.8 cm (65 3/16 × 49 15/16 × 2 5/16 in.); Framed: 198.5 × 159.6 × 32.3 cm (78 1/8 × 62 13/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
Renaissance · Mannerism · 16th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham; through prior gifts of Sara Lee Corporation in memory of its founder, Nathan Cummings, the Antiquarian Society, and Robert Allerton; Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, A. A. Munger, and Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collections; Rhoades Foundation 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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