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Portrait of a Gentleman

Pietro Marescalchi · c. 1545

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 60% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1
Walnut
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.7:1
Raw umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Fawn
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Cinnamon
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Pietro Marescalchi
Date
c. 1545
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
115 × 95 cm (45 1/4 × 37 3/8 in.); Framed: 142.6 × 121.3 × 6.1 cm (56 1/8 × 47 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Place
Feltre
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits · Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Lillian S. Timken (Mrs. William S. Timken). 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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