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A Hunting Scene by Piero di Cosimo

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo · ca. 1494–1500

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Palette

Lamp black
 46% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.3:1
Bistre
 37% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1
Umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1
Green earth
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.5:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Piero di Cosimo
Italian, Florence 1462–1522 Florence
Date
ca. 1494–1500
Type
Painting
Medium
Tempera and oil transferred to Masonite
Size
27 3/4 x 66 3/4 in. (70.5 x 169.5 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Dogs · Trees and forests
Main colour
Black · lightness 12, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Gordon, 1875. 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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