Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler"

William Turner Dannat · 1881

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Palette

Graphite
55% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.7:1

Bistre
22% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.7:1

Soot
15% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1

Iron
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

Warm grey
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

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Artist: William Turner Dannat
American, 1853–1929
Date: 1881
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81.6 × 59.7 cm (32 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the artist. 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

Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler"

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