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Sketch for a Ceiling Fresco

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti · c. 1740

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Palette

Sepia
 40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Taupe
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Coffee
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.1:1
Slate
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1

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
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti
Date
c. 1740
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
65 × 50.8 cm (25 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 67.4 × 6.4 cm (32 × 26 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 39, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of the Edward and Inge Maser Collection in honor of Eloise W. Martin. 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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