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The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda) by Luis Egidio Meléndez

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)

Luis Egidio Meléndez · ca. 1772

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Palette

Soot
 43% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Olive brown
 38% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1
Olive
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.4:1
Sand
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.1:1
Ochre
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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
Luis Egidio Meléndez
Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid
Date
ca. 1772
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x 153.7 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 17

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982. 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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