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Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670) by Diego Velázquez

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Diego Velázquez · 1650

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Palette

Lamp black
 70% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Bistre
 24% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Walnut
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.5:1
Umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Taupe
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Diego Velázquez
Spanish, Seville 1599–1660 Madrid
Date
1650
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
32 x 27 1/2 in. (81.3 x 69.9 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 13, colourfulness 6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971. 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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