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A work made of watercolor and opaque watercolor with scraping and wax resist over graphite on ivory wove paper.

Olive Trees, Corfu

John Singer Sargent · 1909

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Palette

Slate
 39% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Ash
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Leaf green
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.2:1
Pale blue-grey
 12% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.0:1
Steel blue
 7% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.1:1
Emerald
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1

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
John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925
Date
1909
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor and opaque watercolor with scraping and wax resist over graphite on ivory wove paper
Size
35.6 × 50.8 cm (14 1/16 × 20 in.)
Place
United States
Period
20th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial 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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