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A work made of pen and brown ink, with touches of brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper (discolored to tan).

A Farm on the Amsteldijk, Seen from the Northwest

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1650/53

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Palette

Biscuit
 60% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Fawn
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Ash
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Mushroom
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1

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
1650/53
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with touches of brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper (discolored to tan)
Size
15.1 × 25 cm (6 × 9 7/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 21

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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