InspiredBy
✨ Surprise ♡ 0
  1. Home
  2. Paintings
  3. The Infant Bacchus
The Infant Bacchus by Giovanni Bellini

The Infant Bacchus

Giovanni Bellini · probably 1505/1510

View at the National Gallery of Art ↗

Palette

Raw umber
 30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1
Prussian blue
 19% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.2:1
Olive brown
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Bistre
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1
Blue-grey
 14% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.5:1
Fawn
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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 Bellini
1430–1516
Date
probably 1505/1510
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on panel transferred to panel
Size
overall: 50.05 × 39 cm (19 11/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Place
Italian
Period
16th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 18

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1516: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1587. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Works that share this palette

Search by colour

The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

Polycrates and the Fisherman, Salvator Rosa Polycrates and the Fisherman Salvator Rosa, 1664 Portrait of a Gentleman, Caspar Netscher Portrait of a Gentleman Caspar Netscher, 1680 Kitchen Scene, Diego Velázquez Kitchen Scene Diego Velázquez, 1618–20 Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose, Alessandro Magnasco Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1705 The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation, Augustus Cordus The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation Augustus Cordus, 1544 Pond in the Woods, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz Pond in the Woods Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1862

More by Giovanni Bellini

Portrait of a Young Man in Red, Giovanni Bellini Portrait of a Young Man in Red Giovanni Bellini, c. 1480

More like this by theme

All myths and legends
The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback, at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another goddess, Marcantonio Raimondi The Judgment of Paris: he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above. In the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback, at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another goddess Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510–20 The Dream of Paris, Monogrammist PG The Dream of Paris Monogrammist PG, 1536 Icon with the Virgin and Child, Cretan Icon with the Virgin and Child Cretan, c. 1500 Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses, Ugo da Carpi Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1520–27 Venus and Cupid, Lorenzo Lotto Venus and Cupid Lorenzo Lotto, 1520s Jupiter and Juno: Study for the "Furti di Giove" Tapestries, Perino del Vaga Jupiter and Juno: Study for the "Furti di Giove" Tapestries Perino del Vaga, ca. 1532–35