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Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen by Bernard van Orley

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

Bernard van Orley · 1530–35

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Palette

Pale stone
 47% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.4:1
Fawn
 35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Stone
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Khaki
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.4:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Bernard van Orley
Netherlandish, Brussels ca. 1492–1541/42 Brussels
Date
1530–35
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolor over black chalk (recto); tracing in black chalk of the figures on the recto (verso)
Size
14 x 19 in. (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Landscapes · Horses
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995. 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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