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Still life painting of dead waterfowl and vegetables in windowsill.

Still Life with Game Fowl

Juan Sánchez Cotán · c. 1600–3

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Palette

Lamp black
 30% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.8:1
Dark chocolate
 26% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Sepia
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1
Raw umber
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Khaki
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1
Umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

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
Juan Sánchez Cotán
Date
c. 1600–3
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
67.8 × 88.7 cm (26 11/16 × 34 15/16 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 108 × 7 cm (34 × 42 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
Renaissance · 16th century
Themes
Still life · Birds
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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