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Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs · 1747–48

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 81% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Bistre
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.2:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.0:1

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
Anton Raphael Mengs
Date
1747–48
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
53.3 × 40.3 cm (21 × 15 7/8 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 49.9 × 7.7 cm (24 3/4 × 19 5/8 × 3 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof. 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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