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Shepard Alonzo Mount · 1842

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Palette

Soot
88% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Olive brown
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1

Khaki
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Green earth
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Straw
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1

Sand
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

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

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Artist: Shepard Alonzo Mount
American, 1804–1868
Date: 1842
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 17.2 × 27.3 cm (6 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III. 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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