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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Birth of Bacchus

British School · c. 1790

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Palette

Charcoal
 52% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Warm grey
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Putty
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Sepia
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

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
British School
Date
c. 1790
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
37.7 × 80.5 cm (15 × 31 3/4 in.); Framed: 47 × 91.5 × 6.4 cm (18 1/2 × 36 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
United Kingdom
Period
18th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 36, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne. 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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