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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Dutch Whaling Fleet

Abraham Storck · c. 1695

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Palette

Warm grey
 35% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Bistre
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.3:1
Smoke
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Pewter
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Olive brown
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

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
Abraham Storck
Date
c. 1695
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
49 × 63.7 cm (19 1/4 × 25 in.); Framed: 67.4 × 82 × 6.4 cm (26 1/2 × 32 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Winter and snow · Birds · Work and rural life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection. 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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