Young Woman with a Water Pitcher color palette
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1662. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Black coffee#281616RGB 40, 22, 2216%
- Black green#202A2ARGB 32, 42, 4212%
- Olive#695231RGB 105, 82, 4911%
- Stone#9D9C9DRGB 157, 156, 1575%
- Deep blue#1F4A5BRGB 31, 74, 913%
- Burgundy#72352CRGB 114, 53, 441%
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
Black coffee leads with 16% of the painting, and black green follows with 12%.
Burgundy is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 1 (black coffee) to 6 (stone), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (70% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Deep blue and burgundy sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, so each makes the other look stronger (see complementary colors).
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.
