Round 15: Tossup 4

This is the color of the trim of a manteltje (“MONT-ull-chuh”) garment in a disputed portrait of a woman holding a recorder. Christ’s hand points down toward Mary in front of a cloth of this color in the earliest surviving painting by the artist of Diana and Her Companions. The lack of antimony in a pigment of this color (-5[1])led Han van Meegeren’s paintings to be discovered as forgeries. (-5[2])A garment (-5[1])of this color (-5[1])partially (-5[1])obscures a globe in The Allegory of Faith. (-5[2])Shades of this (-5[1])color make up most of the canvas (-5[1])space in the landscapes of Hendrick Avercamp, who used (10[1])a pigment of this color that contributed (10[1])to the death of the artist of The Lacemaker, (10[2])along with (-5[2])lead-tin (-5[1])yellow. Tin-glazed Delftware pottery used blue (10[1])accents against a ground of this color. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, Jan (10[1])Vermeer used a pigment of what color for the linen cap worn in (10[1])The Milkmaid? (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[5])

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