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Music-Making Angels by Albrecht Dürer

Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer · 1521

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Palette

Oyster
 39% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1
Pale stone
 30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1
Putty
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Bone white
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1
Mushroom
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

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, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg
Date
1521
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Size
6 5/8 x 8 3/4 in. (16.9 x 22.3 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Music and dance · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 80, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. William H. Osborn, 1961. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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