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A work made of oil on canvas.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Diego Velázquez · c. 1622

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 70% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.7:1
Sepia
 17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Bronze
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Diego Velázquez
Date
c. 1622
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
175.3 × 152.5 cm (69 × 60 in.); Framed: 202.3 × 184.2 × 9.2 cm (79 5/8 × 72 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.)
Place
Seville
Period
Baroque · 17th century
Themes
Landscapes · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Barbara Deering Danielson. 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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