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A work made of chiaroscuro woodcut in black and two shades of gray on paper.

Pluto, plate four from Demogorgon and the Deities

Hendrick Goltzius · c. 1588–90

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Palette

Putty
 45% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1
Bone white
 22% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1
Stone
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Warm grey
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Oyster
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1

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 Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-1617
Date
c. 1588–90
Type
Print
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut in black and two shades of gray on paper
Size
Oval: 34.3 × 26 cm (13 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Alfred E. Hamill. 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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