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Brown-tone drawing of a nude woman seated on a small stool, looking downward.

Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1660/62

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Palette

Putty
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Fawn
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Linen
 18% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1
Mushroom
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Pale stone
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.6:1

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
1660/62
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Size
Primary/secondary supports: 21.2 × 17.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 15

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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