Study Head of a Bearded Man

Frans Floris, I · c. 1565

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Palette

Soot
41% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1

Fawn
19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Bistre
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1

Sepia
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1

Tan
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Bronze
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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

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Artist: Frans Floris, I
Date: c. 1565
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 46.5 × 33.6 cm (18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 58.5 × 6.4 cm (28 × 23 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: Flanders
Period: 16th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 29, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Study Head of a Bearded Man

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