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Mountain Landscape wih Five Bridges, from Vedute

A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.

Mountain Landscape wih Five Bridges, from Vedute

Giovanni Antonio Canal · 1735/44

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Palette

Pale stone
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.3:1

Putty
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

Stone
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Warm grey
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

Taupe
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Sepia
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1

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 Antonio Canal
Italian, 1697-1768
Date: 1735/44
Type: Print
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Size: Image: 14.2 × 21.1 cm (5 5/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 14.3 × 21.2 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 43.6 × 58.7 cm (17 3/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Themes: Landscapes · Mountains
Main colour: Grey · lightness 67, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair 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