Bacchic Revels

Johann Georg Platzer · c. 1740

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Palette

Iron
40% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Charcoal
25% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1

Smoke
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Pewter
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Soot
7% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1

Ash
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

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

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Artist: Johann Georg Platzer
Date: c. 1740
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on copper
Size: 18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Place: Austria
Period: 18th century
Themes: Mothers and children · Music and dance · Myths and legends
Main colour: Grey · lightness 34, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. McKay Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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