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A work made of oil on panel.

Fishing Boats off an Estuary

Jan van Goyen · 1633

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Palette

Pale blue-grey
 36% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Ash
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Pewter
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Graphite
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Slate
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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
Jan van Goyen
Date
1633
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
36 × 57.8 cm (14 1/8 × 22 3/4 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 78.1 × 5.1 cm (22 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 2 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
17th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 62, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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