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Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger

Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess

Crispijn van de Passe the Younger · 1635-40

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Palette

Oyster
 69% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1
Putty
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1
Mushroom
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Crispijn van de Passe the Younger
Dutch, Cologne ca. 1594–1670 Amsterdam
Date
1635-40
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Metalpoint on prepared parchment (tafelet), inset into a nineteenth-century painted mount
Size
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 11/16 in. (8.5 × 6.8 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Portraits · Work and rural life
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 78, colourfulness 11

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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