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Painting depicting Christ anointed by a woman in yellow, seated centrally at a crowded table of guests with long thin grayish faces in colorful robes with strong white highlights. In the background, tall grey archways, a steepled building, and city architecture.

The Feast in the House of Simon

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) and workshop · c. 1608–14

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 47% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1
Sepia
 32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Smoke
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Charcoal
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.6:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Cinnamon
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) and workshop
Workshop of El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614)
Date
c. 1608–14
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
143.3 × 100.4 cm (56 7/16 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 172.7 × 129.5 × 10.2 cm (68 × 51 × 4 in.)
Place
Greece
Period
Mannerism · 17th century
Themes
Interiors · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 22, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection. 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

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