A light-skinned woman, the bodice of her mauve dress pulled down, lounges against a rock, her arm extended on it. A child, mostly nude, stands in front of her looking downward while two men in her party, largely in shadow, lean toward each other as if in conversation.

Pastoral Scene

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1740

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Palette

Bistre
71% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1

Raw umber
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

Chestnut
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Fawn
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

Parchment
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

Cinnamon
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Date: 1740
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 191.8 × 143 cm (75 1/2 × 56 1/4 in.); Framed: 208.3 × 158.8 × 10.2 cm (82 × 62 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: Realism · 18th century
Themes: Dogs · Birds · Mothers and children
Main colour: Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Pastoral Scene

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