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A work made of engraving in black on off-white laid paper.

The Virgin on the Crescent with a Diadem

Albrecht Dürer · 1514

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Palette

Pale stone
 51% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.4:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Warm grey
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Smoke
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1

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
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528
Date
1514
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving in black on off-white laid paper
Size
Image/sheet: 11.6 × 7.5 cm (4 5/8 × 3 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 68, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.. 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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