The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

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Palette

Walnut
47% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.2:1

Raw umber
25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Burnt sienna
9% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.3:1

Stone
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

Dark chocolate
7% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1

Mahogany
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.3:1

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

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Artist: Georges de La Tour
French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593–1652 Lunéville
Date: probably 1630s
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in. (101.9 x 123.5 cm)
Period: 17th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 31, colourfulness 22

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1960. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Fortune-Teller

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