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Study for Detail: The Goddess Diana

A work made of red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper.

Study for Detail: The Goddess Diana

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1750–59

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Palette

Silver
56% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Ash
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1

Stone
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

Warm grey
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Oyster
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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

Details

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770
Date: 1750–59
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper
Size: 17.9 × 24 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Themes: Myths and legends
Main colour: Grey · lightness 68, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Simeon B. Williams Fund. 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