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Old Man with a Gold Chain

Portrait of man wearing voluminous black cloak, feathered hat, and gold medallion.

Old Man with a Gold Chain

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1631

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Palette

Lamp black
38% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.8:1

Dark chocolate
34% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1

Sepia
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1

Olive brown
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

Bronze
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Walnut
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.7:1

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
Date: 1631
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 83.1 × 75.7 cm (32 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.); Framed: 105.1 × 99.5 cm (41 3/8 × 39 3/16 in.)
Place: Holland
Period: Renaissance · 17th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules