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A work made of oil on canvas.

Old Man Lighting a Pipe

Johann Carl Loth · c. 1660

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Palette

Lamp black
42% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Coffee
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.9:1
Umber
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Fawn
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Caramel
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

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
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. Licence rules

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