Old Man with a Gold Chain color palette
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1631. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Ink brown#2F261ERGB 47, 38, 3065%
- Deep umber#443729RGB 68, 55, 4119%
- Umber#544635RGB 84, 70, 5315%
- Deep cognac#93683ERGB 147, 104, 621%
- Cognac#936A3FRGB 147, 106, 63under 1%
- Camel#B78F62RGB 183, 143, 98under 1%
Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Ink brown rules this painting: it covers 65%, more than all the other colors together.
Deep cognac is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 2 (ink brown) to 6 (camel), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (99% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the painting in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
