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A work made of chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in black, yellow and olive-green, on ivory laid paper.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

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Palette

Olive brown
 45% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Khaki
 30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Sand
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1
Parchment
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.4:1
Linen
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.4:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1

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
Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-1617
Date
1588
Type
Print
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in black, yellow and olive-green, on ivory laid paper
Size
Image/plate/sheet trimmed to platemark: 41 × 33.2 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 52, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Alfred E. Hamill. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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