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Four women with musical instruments lounge in a massive garden courtyard.

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam

Carl Blechen · 1834

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Palette

Dark olive
 50% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.9:1
Green earth
 31% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1
Sand
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Spruce
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.9:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Sage
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Carl Blechen
Date
1834
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
135 × 126 cm (52 1/2 × 50 in.); Framed: 155 × 145.5 cm (61 × 57 1/4 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers · Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour
Green · lightness 36, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection; L.L. and A.S. Coburn and Alexander A. McKay endowments; through prior gift of William Wood Prince; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment. 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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