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Perseus's Last Duty by Max Beckmann

Perseus's Last Duty

Max Beckmann · 1949

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Palette

Charcoal
 69% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.3:1
Lavender grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Green earth
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.7:1
Dusty rose
 5% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1
Chestnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Old gold
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Max Beckmann
German, 1884–1950
Date
1949
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
Unframed: 89.4 x 142 cm (35 3/16 x 55 7/8 in.)
Place
Germany, 20th century
Period
20th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 5

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Artist died 1950: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2021. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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