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Cherubs Floating on a Cloud

Italian · 17th century

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Palette

Chestnut
 36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1
Lamp black
 27% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.3:1
Pewter
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Olive brown
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Caramel
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Italian
Date
17th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
Diam.: 120.3 cm (47 3/8 in.); Framed: 128.3 × 128.3 × 5.1 cm (50 1/2 × 50 1/2 × 2 in.)
Place
Spain
Period
16th century
Themes
Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, James Deering bequest. 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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