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The Musicians by Caravaggio

The Musicians

Caravaggio · 1597

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Palette

Bistre
 35% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.0:1
Taupe
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Lamp black
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.6:1
Umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Oxblood
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Smoke
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

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
Caravaggio
Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571–1610 Porto Ercole
Date
1597
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
36 1/4 x 46 5/8 in. (92.1 x 118.4 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1952. 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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