Zoom

Portrait of Don Juan of Austria

Alonso Sánchez Coello · 1559–60

Palette

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

Alonso Sánchez Coello

Date

1559–60

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on panel, transferred to canvas

Size

40.3 × 27.6 cm (15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Framed: 55 × 42.6 × 5.8 cm (21 5/8 × 16 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Place

Netherlands

Period

16th century

Themes

Portraits

Main colour

Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 18

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 (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules