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Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert

Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays · c. 1758–64

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Palette

Taupe
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Sepia
 32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1
Bronze
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Chestnut
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1

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
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
Date
c. 1758–64
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
42.2 × 26.5 cm (16 5/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Framed: 59.4 × 44.3 × 7.4 cm (23 3/8 × 17 7/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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