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Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy

Hendrick van Steenwijck, the Younger · c. 1610

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 80% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Bistre
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.9:1
Oxblood
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1
Iron
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Chestnut
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1
Olive brown
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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
Hendrick van Steenwijck, the Younger
Date
c. 1610
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
22.6 × 31.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.); Framed: 29.6 × 38.5 × 6.1 cm (11 5/8 × 15 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Place
Flanders
Period
17th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Interiors · Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Endowment. 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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