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Still life of sensuously detailed painting of four white magnolias lying on blue velvet cloth.

Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth

Martin Johnson Heade · 1885–95

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Palette

Soot
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Olive brown
 37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Lichen
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.1:1
Parchment
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.7:1
Spruce
 6% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.7:1
Olive
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.7:1

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
Martin Johnson Heade
Date
1885–95
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
38.6 × 61.8 cm (15 1/4 × 24 3/8 in.)
Place
Florida
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers · Still life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Gloria and Richard Manney; Harold L. Stuart Endowment Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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