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Painting of a mustached man with a wide-brimmed black hat and white flat collar seen from the waist up, turned to the viewer.

Portrait of an Artist

Follower of Frans Hals · 1644

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Palette

Lamp black
 91% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Bistre
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.4:1
Dark ochre
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Olive brown
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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
Follower of Frans Hals
Date
1644
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
82.6 × 64.8 cm (32 1/2 × 25 1/2 in.); Framed: 109 × 91.5 × 3.5 cm (42 7/8 × 36 × 1 3/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson. 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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