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A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

Three Angels Appearing to Abraham

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1726

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Palette

Putty
 44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Pale stone
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1
Mushroom
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

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. 1726
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Size
43.1 × 28.5 cm (17 × 11 1/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake 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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