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The Annunciation by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

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Palette

Bistre
 51% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1
Brick
 21% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.9:1
Midnight
 16% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1
Slate
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Hans Memling
Netherlandish, Seligenstadt, active by 1465–died 1494 Bruges
Date
ca. 1465–70
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on wood
Size
73 1/4 x 45 1/4 in. (186.1 x 114.9 cm)
Period
15th century
Themes
Interiors · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. 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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