Elijah Fed by the Raven

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo · c. 1510

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Palette

Bistre
64% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.8:1

Slate blue
19% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.8:1

Powder blue
5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.8:1

Green earth
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Sienna
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Blush
3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 10.1:1

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

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Artist: Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
1480–1548
Date: c. 1510
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on panel transferred to canvas
Size: overall: 168 x 135.6 cm (66 1/8 x 53 3/8 in.)
Place: Italian
Period: 16th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 30, colourfulness 12

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1548: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1619. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Elijah Fed by the Raven

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