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An Italian Comedy in Verona

Marco Marcola · 1772

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Palette

Ink
 27% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1
Celadon
 26% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.4:1
Bistre
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.1:1
Raw umber
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Sand
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Lichen
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Marco Marcola
Date
1772
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
115.3 × 84.2 cm (45 3/8 × 32 5/8 in.); Framed: 122 × 92.3 × 7.7 cm (48 × 36 3/8 × 3 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Dogs
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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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