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Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1645–50

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Palette

Fawn
 43% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Tan
 35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Bronze
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Bone white
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.5:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

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 Benedetto Castiglione
Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua
Date
1645–50
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined
Size
16 x 21-1/16 in. (40.6 x 53.5 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Music and dance · Myths and legends
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 63, colourfulness 24

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Fund, 1962. 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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