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Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal) by Giovanni Antonio Canal

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

Giovanni Antonio Canal · 1741

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Palette

Pale stone
 45% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Warm grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Bone white
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Smoke
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Slate
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

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 Antonio Canal
Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice
Date
1741
Type
Print
Medium
Etching; undivided plate, only state
Size
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 13/16 × 17 3/16 in. (30 × 43.7 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 68, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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