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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Denial of Saint Peter

Hendrick ter Brugghen · c. 1626

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 45% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Coffee
 40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.7:1
Umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.0:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1

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
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Date
c. 1626
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
132.3 × 178 cm (51 5/8 × 69 5/8 in.); Framed: 149.2 × 194.3 × 7 cm (58 3/4 × 76 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
17th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 15, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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