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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni · 1740–45

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Palette

Bistre
50% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.7:1

Spruce
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1

Caramel
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Fawn
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

Cinnamon
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1

Rust
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

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

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Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Date: 1740–45
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 43.3 × 26.5 cm (17 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 35.6 × 3.9 cm (20 1/2 × 14 × 1 1/2 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 33, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Harold T. Martin Trust. 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

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