Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1480–85

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Palette

Pale stone
73% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1

Fawn
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

Bone white
8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.4:1

Mushroom
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Linen
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

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: Leonardo da Vinci
Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise
Date: 1480–85
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Silverpoint, partly reworked by the artist with pen and dark brown ink on pink prepared paper; lines ruled with metalpoint (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Size: 7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (19.3 x 16.2 cm)
Period: 15th century
Themes: Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1917. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules