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Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes · 1796

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Palette

Mushroom
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Dark olive
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.5:1
Olive brown
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1
Raw umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Bronze
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
Date
1796
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
41.9 × 91.4 cm (16 1/2 × 36 in.); Framed: 59.4 × 109 × 7.7 cm (23 3/8 × 42 7/8 × 3 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Mountains · Dogs
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold T. Martin. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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