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Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer · 1514

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Palette

Iron
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.1:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Warm grey
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Mushroom
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Bone white
 13% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.4:1
Pale stone
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1

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
1514
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving
Size
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (24.1 × 18.7 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Dogs
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943. 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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