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Saint James's Vision of the Virgin of the Pillar

Antonio González Velásquez, I · c. 1750

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Palette

Lamp black
 40% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.6:1
Bronze
 27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Walnut
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.9:1
Khaki
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Putty
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1
Green earth
 5% of the image
Green · 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
Antonio González Velásquez, I
Date
c. 1750
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
105.5 × 65.3 cm (41 1/2 × 25 11/16 in.); Framed: 117.5 × 77.8 × 7.7 cm (46 1/4 × 30 5/8 × 3 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
18th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 26, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. McKay Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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