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

The Little Monument, from Vedute

Giovanni Antonio Canal · 1735/44

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Palette

Pale stone
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Taupe
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Putty
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1
Smoke
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

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: 11.2 × 8.3 cm (4 7/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Plate: 12 × 8.6 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 58.7 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 64, 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

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