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Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

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Palette

Iron
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Bone white
 17% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Warm grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Pale stone
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.3:1
Mushroom
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

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
1504
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving
Size
9 7/8 x 7 7/8in. (25.1 x 20cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Cats · Birds
Main colour
Grey · lightness 57, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1919. 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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