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Christ Carrying the Cross by Martin Schongauer

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer · ca. 1475–80

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Palette

Mushroom
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Putty
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1
Pale stone
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1
Warm grey
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Bone white
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.2:1

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
Martin Schongauer
German, Colmar ca. 1435/50–1491 Breisach
Date
ca. 1475–80
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving
Size
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 in. (28.9 × 42.9 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Dogs · Horses · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 66, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, by exchange, 1935. 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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