The Continence of Scipio

Sebastiano Ricci · c. 1706

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Palette

Dark chocolate
33% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Silver
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1

Taupe
20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Chestnut
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1

Rust
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.4:1

Denim
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.0:1

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: Sebastiano Ricci
Date: c. 1706
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 140 × 182 cm (55 × 71 1/2 in.); Framed: 165.1 × 209.6 cm (65 × 82 1/2 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 42, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Preston O. Morton Memorial Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Continence of Scipio

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