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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Woman with a Prayer Book

Bartholomaeus Bruyn, the younger · c. 1565

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Palette

Soot
 74% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Pale stone
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Raw umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1

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
Bartholomaeus Bruyn, the younger
Date
c. 1565
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
46.6 × 33.3 cm (18 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)
Place
Germany
Themes
Portraits · Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 26, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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