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A work made of pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with blue fibers.

Madonna with the Monkey

Albrecht Dürer · n.d.

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Palette

Putty
 59% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.1:1
Warm grey
 13% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.8:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Stone
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Pale stone
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1

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
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528
Date
n.d.
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with blue fibers
Size
16.4 × 12.4 cm (6 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
15th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Green · lightness 62, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial 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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