A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper.

Musician Angels

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · n.d.

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Palette

Ivory
44% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.7:1

Silver
27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Putty
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1

Mushroom
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

Stone
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696–1770
Date: n.d.
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper
Size: 18.4 × 25.6 cm (7 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Place: Italy
Period: 18th century
Themes: Music and dance
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 79, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. 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