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Virgin and Child by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1670s

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 73% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Coffee
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Chestnut
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1
Fawn
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville
Date
1670s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
65 1/4 x 43 in. (165.7 x 109.2 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943. 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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