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The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book

A work made of pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper.

The Holy Family, Saint Joseph with a Book

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1750–59

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Palette

Linen
91% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1

Fawn
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1

Pine
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1

Khaki
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Olive brown
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.3:1

Stone
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1

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: Pen and brown iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso) on off-white laid paper, tipped on to ivory laid paper
Size: Primary support: 27.7 × 19.9 cm (10 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 22.1 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Themes: Reading and letters · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 83, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection. 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