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A work made of engraving in black ink on cream laid paper.

The Nativity, from the Life of Christ

Martin Schongauer · c. 1474

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Palette

Pale stone
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.0:1
Putty
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1
Iron
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Warm grey
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Bone white
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

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
Martin Schongauer
German, c. 1430/50-1491
Date
c. 1474
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving in black ink on cream laid paper
Size
Sheet, trimmed to platemark: 15.8 × 15.8 cm (6 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
15th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.. 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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