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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Man

Corneille de Lyon · c. 1555

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Palette

Soot
 48% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1
Olive
 33% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1
Honey
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Dark olive
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.3:1
Caramel
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Walnut
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.1:1

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
Corneille de Lyon
Date
c. 1555
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
24 × 18.5 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Framed: 35.3 × 30.5 × 4.5 cm (13 7/8 × 12 × 1 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Green · lightness 28, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Everett D. Graff. 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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