The Censer

Martin Schongauer · 1470–91

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Palette

Putty
55% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1

Taupe
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1

Bone white
12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.9:1

Mushroom
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Smoke
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

Iron
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1

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

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Artist: Martin Schongauer
German, Colmar ca. 1435/50–1491 Breisach
Date: 1470–91
Type: Print
Medium: Engraving
Size: Mat: 19 1/4 x 14 5/16 in. (48.9 x 36.3 cm) Sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 1/8 in. (27.1 x 20.7 cm)
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Censer

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