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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Man with a Pink

Quinten Metsys · 1500–10

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Palette

Soot
 38% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1
Deep teal
 26% of the image
Teal · text contrast 7.7:1
Dark chocolate
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1
Cinnamon
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Blue-grey
 6% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.2:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Quinten Metsys
Date
1500–10
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
43.8 × 29.2 cm (17 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.); Framed: 51.8 × 36.9 × 4.5 cm (20 3/8 × 14 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
15th century
Themes
Portraits · Flowers
Main colour
Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of John J. Glessner. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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