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A work made of black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper.

Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1742/43

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Palette

Linen
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.4:1
Putty
 41% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1
Khaki
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770
Date
1742/43
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Size
40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray. 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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