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A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

Fantasy on the Death of Seneca

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1735/40

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Palette

Silver
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1
Oyster
 33% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Putty
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Stone
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1

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
1735/40
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Size
34 × 24 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein 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

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