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Venus Healing Aeneas

Merry-Joseph Blondel · c. 1820

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Palette

Coffee
 34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.7:1
Soot
 25% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1
Tan
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1
Smoke
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1
Mahogany
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1

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
Merry-Joseph Blondel
Date
c. 1820
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
27 × 21.5 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.); Framed: 39.4 × 33.7 × 7 cm (15 1/2 × 13 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Mountains · Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Pamela and Roger Hull through the Old Masters Society. 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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