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The Death of Procris

Benjamin West · 1770, retouched 1803

Palette

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

Benjamin West

Date

1770, retouched 1803

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on panel

Size

32.4 × 41.2 cm (12 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.); Framed: 41.6 × 50.8 × 5.1 cm (16 3/8 × 20 × 2 in.)

Place

England

Period

18th century

Themes

Flowers · Dogs · Myths and legends · Trees and forests

Main colour

Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of William O. Cole. 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