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A work made of etching with engraved inscription on laid paper.

Aesop

Francisco Goya · 1778

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Palette

Chalk
 79% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.9:1
Bone white
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.6:1
Oyster
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1
Stone
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

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
Francisco Goya
after Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660)
Date
1778
Type
Print
Medium
Etching with engraved inscription on laid paper
Size
Image: 18 × 27 cm (7 1/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 30 cm (8 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 43 cm (12 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
18th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 93, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment. 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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