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Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun

Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun

Johann Michael Rottmayr · c. 1695

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Palette

Sepia
63% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

Mushroom
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Slate
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1

Brick
6% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.9:1

Pale stone
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1

Denim
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.0:1

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: Johann Michael Rottmayr
Date: c. 1695
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81.3 × 125.2 cm (32 × 49 1/2 in.); Framed: 92.8 × 135.9 × 10.8 cm (36 1/2 × 53 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place: Austria
Period: 17th century
Themes: Horses · Music and dance · Myths and legends
Main colour: Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jacob S. Sherman. 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