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Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers" by Hendrik Goltzius

Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrik Goltzius · 1588

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Palette

Pale stone
 56% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.1:1
Bone white
 29% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.2:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Hendrik Goltzius
Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem
Date
1588
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving
Size
Diameter: 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Horses
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 80, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. 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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