Pierrot Catching a Fly

Philippe Mercier · 1740–50

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Palette

Dark chocolate
63% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.2:1

Raw umber
18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Sepia
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Pale stone
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1

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: Philippe Mercier
Date: 1740–50
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 58.6 × 74 cm (23 1/16 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 102.3 × 11.5 cm (34 × 40 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton. 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

Pierrot Catching a Fly

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