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A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of a woman

Ferdinand Bol · c. 1655

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Palette

Lamp black
 64% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.1:1
Bistre
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.4:1
Dark chocolate
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

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
Ferdinand Bol
Date
c. 1655
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
60 × 46.6 cm (23 5/8 × 18 5/16 in.); Framed: 78.5 × 65.5 × 9.6 cm (30 7/8 × 25 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Max and Leola Epstein Collection. 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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