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Portrait of a Man

Arthur Devis · 1763

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Palette

Olive
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Putty
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.1:1
Pale stone
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Olive brown
 17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Bistre
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1
Khaki
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Arthur Devis
Date
1763
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
76.5 × 64.1 cm (30 1/8 × 25 1/4 in.); (Framed): 85.1 × 73.7 × 5.8 cm (33 1/2 × 29 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Dogs
Main colour
Brown · lightness 54, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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