A work made of pen and brown ink on cream laid paper.

Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy

Jean-François Millet · 1869/70

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Palette

Linen
63% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

Putty
27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1

Fawn
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.2:1

Chalk
3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Raw umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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: Jean-François Millet
French, 1814-1875
Date: 1869/70
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Size: 30.4 × 36.5 cm (12 × 14 3/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 82, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Marjorie Blum-Kovler Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation. 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

Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy

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