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The Judgment of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Judgment of Paris

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528

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Palette

Soot
 34% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1
Bistre
 34% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1
Fawn
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Dark chocolate
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.0:1

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
Lucas Cranach the Elder
German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar
Date
ca. 1528
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on beech
Size
40 1/8 x 28in. (101.9 x 71.1cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Horses · Cities and streets
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1928. 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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