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Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography"

Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography"

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1640

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Palette

Oyster
93% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

Pale stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

Mushroom
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Stone
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Warm grey
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

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: Anthony van Dyck
Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London
Date: ca. 1640
Type: Print
Medium: Etching; first state of seven
Size: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (24.1 × 15.6 cm)
Period: 17th century
Themes: Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules