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Hercules and Hesione

Bartolomeo Salvestrini · c. 1630

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Palette

Graphite
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Ink
 24% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.0:1
Slate
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Pewter
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Silver
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Pearl grey
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1

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
Bartolomeo Salvestrini
Date
c. 1630
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
175.4 × 150.2 cm (69 1/16 × 59 1/8 in.); Framed: 191.2 × 165.8 × 8.3 cm (75 1/4 × 65 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
17th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Grey · lightness 36, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca. 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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