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A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg

Lucas Cranach the Elder · c. 1529

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Palette

Lamp black
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.7:1
Mushroom
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1
Taupe
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Chestnut
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1
Oxblood
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.5:1
Garnet
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 11.9:1

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
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Date
c. 1529
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
59.8 × 41.6 cm (23 9/16 × 16 3/8 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 50.8 × 5.8 cm (27 1/4 × 20 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 33, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Kate S. Buckingham. 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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