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Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici in full armor, his left hand resting on a staff by Nicolò della Casa

Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici in full armor, his left hand resting on a staff

Nicolò della Casa · 1544

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Palette

Warm grey
 49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Ash
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Smoke
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Silver
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1
Linen
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1

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
Nicolò della Casa
French, active Italy, ca. 1543–48
Date
1544
Type
Print
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Size
Sheet: 17 1/8 in. × 12 in. (43.5 × 30.5 cm) Plate: 16 13/16 × 11 9/16 in. (42.7 × 29.4 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of M. Feltenstein, 2013. 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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