Dark twilight scene of a a brightly illuminated white cottage along the shore of an expansive body of water, seen through a thick of silhouetted trees.

Fisherman's Cottage

Harald Sohlberg · 1906

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Palette

Lamp black
75% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.2:1

Ink
15% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1

Prussian blue
4% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.8:1

Deep teal
3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.1:1

Slate
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

Pine
1% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1

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: Harald Sohlberg
Norwegian, 1869-1935
Date: 1906
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 109 × 94 cm (43 × 37 in.)
Place: Norway
Period: 20th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 8, colourfulness 2

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edward Byron Smith. 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

Fisherman's Cottage

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