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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Man

North Netherlandish · c. 1525

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Palette

Lamp black
 52% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Pewter
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Slate
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Silver
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1
Charcoal
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1
Chalk
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1

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
North Netherlandish
Date
c. 1525
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
37.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/4 × 19 3/16 in.); (Framed): 62 × 51.8 × 8.9 cm (24 3/8 × 20 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Mountains
Main colour
Black · lightness 29, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Adolph Caspar Miller. 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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