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A work made of black chalk on buff laid paper.

Elderly Peasant Couple

Rembrandt van Rijn · n.d.

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Palette

Putty
 76% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Fawn
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Chalk
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.2:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Pearl grey
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
n.d.
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk on buff laid paper
Size
17.1 × 18 cm (6 3/4 × 7 1/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 73, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial 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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