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A work made of pen and black ink, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.

Pietà (Vesperbild)

Albrecht Dürer · 16th century

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Palette

Pale stone
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1
Putty
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Chalk
 13% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1
Linen
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.2:1
Stone
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · 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
Albrecht Dürer
in the manner of Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Date
16th century
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and black ink, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Size
24.4 × 18.9 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
15th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 80, colourfulness 13

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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