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Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus by Claude Lorrain

Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

Claude Lorrain · 1658

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Palette

Mushroom
 37% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Taupe
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Pale stone
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Linen
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.2:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Claude Lorrain
French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome
Date
1658
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
Size
11 13/16 x 17 1/2 in. (30 x 44.4 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 60, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997. 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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