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A work made of red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto.

The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)

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Palette

Putty
 64% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Fawn
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Tan
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Caramel
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Linen
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.7:1
Terracotta
 1% of the image
Pink · 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
1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
Size
22.7 × 24.2 cm (8 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 69, colourfulness 14

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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