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Print in black ink of three bearded men dressed in voluminous cloth hats. A fourth man in a tall cloth hat leans out of a doorway or window in apparent conversation with the others.

Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban?)

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1641

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Palette

Pale stone
 46% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1
Putty
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Mushroom
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Smoke
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
1641
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on paper
Size
Plate/image: 14.3 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 14.6 × 11.4 cm (5 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection. 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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