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Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects by Joris Hoefnagel

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel · 1589

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Palette

Oyster
 39% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1
Fawn
 29% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Graphite
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Dusty rose
 5% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.5:1
Pale blue-grey
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Joris Hoefnagel
Netherlandish, Antwerp 1542–1600 Vienna
Date
1589
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on vellum
Size
Sheet: 4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in. (11.7 x 9.3 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Flowers · Still life
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price, Jean A. Bonna, and Annette de la Renta Gifts, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2008. 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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