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The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right by Leonardo da Vinci

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Leonardo da Vinci · 1510–13

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Palette

Taupe
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Warm grey
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Mushroom
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Pale stone
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Chalk
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.8:1

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
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise
Date
1510–13
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing lines in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo)
Size
Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 65, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951. 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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