Seated Giant

Francisco Goya · by 1818 (possibly 1814–18)

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Palette

Ivory
26% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.0:1

Sepia
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

Warm grey
18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Putty
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1

Taupe
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Iron
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1

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

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Artist: Francisco Goya
Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux
Date: by 1818 (possibly 1814–18)
Type: Print
Medium: Burnished aquatint, scaper, roulette, lavis (along the top of the landscape and within the landscape)
Size: Plate: 11 3/16 × 8 3/16 in. (28.4 × 20.8 cm) Framed: 21 3/4 × 19 in. (55.2 × 48.3 cm)
Place: Spain
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Seated Giant

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