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The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist, plate six from The Birth and Early Life of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius · 1593

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Palette

Smoke
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Silver
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1
Warm grey
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Taupe
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Oyster
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.3:1
Mushroom
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

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
Hendrick Goltzius
text written by Cornelius Schonaeus
Date
1593
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving on paper
Size
Image: 46.1 × 35.1 cm (18 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Plate/sheet: 47.8 × 35.4 cm (18 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 59, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections. 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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