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Ice skaters on the Amstel in Amsterdam by Hans Bol

Ice skaters on the Amstel in Amsterdam

Hans Bol · 1589

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Palette

Oyster
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Pale stone
 25% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1
Putty
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Silver
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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 Bol
Netherlandish, Mechelen 1534–1593 Amsterdam
Date
1589
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Size
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 7/16 in. (15 × 21.5 cm)
Period
16th century
Themes
Winter and snow
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2024. 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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