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The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons by Jacques-Louis David

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

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Palette

Warm grey
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Mushroom
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Smoke
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Putty
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.6:1
Pale stone
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1
Linen
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

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
Jacques-Louis David
French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
Date
1787
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache
Size
Sheet: 13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in. (33.2 x 42.1 cm)
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2006. 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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