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A work made of oil on canvas.

Dead Birds and Shot Bags

Pieter Boel · c. 1660

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Palette

Bistre
 74% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.7:1
Soot
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1
Sepia
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Bronze
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Pieter Boel
Date
c. 1660
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
32.6 × 43.3 cm (12 3/4 × 17 in.); Framed: 49.5 × 59.7 × 6.4 cm (19 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Flanders
Period
17th century
Themes
Still life · Birds
Main colour
Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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