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The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

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Palette

Soot
 68% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1
Bistre
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1
Walnut
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.4:1
Olive brown
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1
Chestnut
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1
Bronze
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

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
Jacques-Louis David
French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
Date
1787
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)
Period
18th century
Main colour
Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931. 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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