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Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

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Palette

Lamp black
 48% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Walnut
 34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1
Fawn
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Bronze
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Garnet
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 13.5:1
Oxblood
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1

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
Petrus Christus
Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges
Date
1446
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on oak
Size
Overall 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm); painted surface 11 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (29.2 x 18.7 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949. 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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