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Large painting of Holy Family: Mary in red, holding baby Jesus.

The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist

Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1615

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Palette

Bistre
 27% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1
Umber
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Graphite
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Brick
 15% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.1:1
Fawn
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Garnet
 5% of the image
Red · text contrast 11.5:1

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
Peter Paul Rubens
Date
c. 1615
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
114.5 × 91.5 cm (45 1/8 × 36 in.); Framed: 137.8 × 115.6 × 12.7 cm (54 1/4 × 45 1/2 × 5 in.)
Place
Flanders
Period
17th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 31, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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