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Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage by Adriaen van Ostade

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade · 1673

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Palette

Taupe
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Warm grey
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Putty
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Mushroom
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Iron
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Linen
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.7:1

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
Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch, Haarlem 1610–1685 Haarlem
Date
1673
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink and gold
Size
9 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. (24.4 x 20.2 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Interiors · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 51, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1996. 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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