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A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper.

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1650

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Palette

Putty
 54% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Fawn
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Tan
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Raw umber
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Ivory
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
c. 1650
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper
Size
19.4 × 24.4 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection. 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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