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Portrait of a Donor (recto); Saint Anthony of Padua (verso)

Hans Memling · c. 1485

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Palette

Lamp black
 28% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.4:1
Bronze
 27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Sepia
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Bistre
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.4:1
Pewter
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Silver
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

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
Hans Memling
Date
c. 1485
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
Framed: 41.3 × 33.3 cm (16 5/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
15th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Interiors · Reading and letters · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Arthur Sachs. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-27); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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