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The Music Lesson

Gerard ter Borch · c. 1670

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Palette

Bistre
 72% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1
Sepia
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1
Smoke
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Gerard ter Borch
Date
c. 1670
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
63.6 × 50.4 cm (25 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 84.8 × 70.8 × 6.4 cm (33 3/8 × 27 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
17th century
Themes
Dogs · Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour
Black · lightness 23, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles T. Yerkes. 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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