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A work made of oil on panel.

Nicolas Rubens, the Artist's Son

Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1635

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Palette

Lamp black
 50% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.7:1
Iron
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1
Charcoal
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.9:1
Smoke
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Pearl grey
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.9:1

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
Peter Paul Rubens
Date
c. 1635
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
73.7 × 59.1 cm (29 × 23 1/4 in.); Framed: 161 × 69.9 cm (63 3/8 × 27 1/2 in.)
Place
Flanders
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 4

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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