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A Lady Reading (Saint Mary Magdalene)

Master of the Female Half-Lengths · c. 1530

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 68% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Garnet
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 10.3:1
Salmon
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Raw umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Shell pink
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1
Ash
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Master of the Female Half-Lengths
Date
c. 1530
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
52.4 × 37.5 cm (20 5/8 × 14 3/4 in.); Framed: 65.1 × 50.2 cm (25 5/8 × 19 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
16th century
Themes
Landscapes · Interiors · Reading and letters · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 13

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 (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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