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A work made of charcoal, with stumping, heightened with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

Final Published Work: Head of Menem Ben Israel

Rembrandt van Rijn · n.d.

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Palette

Warm grey
 45% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Taupe
 38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Smoke
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Iron
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Pearl grey
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.6:1

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
Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Size
40.1 × 26.6 cm (15 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Main colour
Grey · lightness 50, colourfulness 9

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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