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The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist by Andrea del Sarto

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto · ca. 1528

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 58% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Sepia
 24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Tan
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Mahogany
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.5:1
Brick
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.5:1
Prussian blue
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.7:1

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
Andrea del Sarto
Italian, Florence 1486–1530 Florence
Date
ca. 1528
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on wood
Size
53 1/2 x 39 5/8 in. (135.9 x 100.6 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 23, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1922. 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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