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A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash on cream laid paper.

Noah's Ark

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1660

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Palette

Biscuit
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1
Tan
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Fawn
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
c. 1660
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash on cream laid paper
Size
20.3 × 24.8 cm (8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. 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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