Old Man Lighting a Pipe
Johann Carl Loth · c. 1660
Palette
Lamp black
Coffee
Umber
Fawn
Raw umber
Caramel
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
- Johann Carl Loth
- Date
- c. 1660
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 95 × 85 cm (37 1/2 × 33 1/2 in.); Framed: 119.4 × 109.9 × 7 cm (47 × 43 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Place
- Germany
- Period
- 17th century
- Themes
- Interiors
- Main colour
- Brown · lightness 23, colourfulness 15
Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by The Old Masters Society. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0.
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