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Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 35% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1
Walnut
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1
Graphite
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1
Taupe
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Mushroom
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Slate blue
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Date
c. 1695
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81.3 × 125.2 cm (32 × 49 1/2 in.); Framed: 92.1 × 135.9 × 10.2 cm (36 1/4 × 53 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place
Austria
Period
17th century
Themes
Mountains · Birds · Myths and legends · Work and rural life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jacob S. Sherman. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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