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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

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Palette

Lamp black
 53% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.2:1
Raw umber
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Blue-grey
 9% of the image
Teal · text contrast 4.9:1
Ash
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Navy
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.3:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Gerard David
Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges
Date
ca. 1512–15
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on wood
Size
21 in. × 15 11/16 in. (53.3 × 39.8 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 22, colourfulness 13

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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