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

Oceanus, plate two from Demogorgon and the Deities

Hendrick Goltzius · c. 1588–90

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Palette

Pale stone
 33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.3:1
Bone white
 28% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1
Putty
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1
Stone
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Warm grey
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

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: 34.5 × 26.1 cm (13 5/8 × 10 5/16 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 75, colourfulness 11

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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