Painting of several light-skinned people gathered around a table in front of a gilded mirror, playing instruments. At left, seated next to a woman in an off-the-shoulder gown, a man in a plumed hat plays a lute. At center right, another man plays a cello, while a dog and cat eat from a dish underfoot.

The Family Concert

Jan Steen · 1666

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Walnut
54% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.1:1

Dark chocolate
36% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.1:1

Sepia
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

Chestnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Cinnamon
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1

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

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Artist: Jan Steen
Date: 1666
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 86.6 × 101 cm (34 1/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 115.6 × 5.1 cm (40 × 45 1/2 × 2 in.)
Place: Holland
Period: 17th century
Themes: Dogs · Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour: Brown · lightness 21, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Timothy B. Blackstone. 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

The Family Concert

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