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Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas by Jean Cousin the Elder

Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1543

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Palette

Putty
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Mushroom
 31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Warm grey
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Bone white
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.9:1

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
Jean Cousin the Elder
French, Souci (?) ca. 1490–ca. 1560 Paris (?)
Date
ca. 1543
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
Size
9 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (23.5 x 32 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 2001. 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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