A work made of pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1719

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Palette

Sand
29% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.5:1

Tan
25% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

Bone white
22% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1

Pale stone
18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1

Raw umber
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

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: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770
Date: c. 1719
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Size: 37 × 51.1 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 71, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Given in memory of Carl O. Schniewind. 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

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

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