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Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia

Jean-Baptiste Wicar · 1790–93

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 66% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Olive brown
 19% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.5:1
Khaki
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Bronze
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Oxblood
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.5:1
Carmine
 3% of the image
Red · text contrast 11.4:1

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
Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Date
1790–93
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
111.1 × 142.6 cm (43 3/4 × 56 1/8 in.); Framed: 134 × 165.5 × 10.5 cm (52 3/4 × 65 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Interiors · Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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