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A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory laid paper.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1734

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Palette

Fawn
 30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Taupe
 27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Pale stone
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Oyster
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1
Olive brown
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Sepia
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1

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 Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770
Date
c. 1734
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory laid paper
Size
40 × 24.7 cm (15 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein 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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