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Self-Portrait by Rembrandt

Self-Portrait

Rembrandt · 1660

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 45% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.1:1
Bistre
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.9:1
Lamp black
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.5:1
Walnut
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.1:1
Cinnamon
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1
Caramel
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1

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
Rembrandt
Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam
Date
1660
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
31 5/8 x 26 1/2 in. (80.3 x 67.3 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 12, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913. 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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