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The Brook of Les Puits-Noir

Gustave Courbet · c. 1855

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Palette

Lamp black
 74% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Dark olive
 12% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.7:1
Green earth
 6% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.4:1
Sage
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.1:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.3:1

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
Gustave Courbet
Date
c. 1855
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
46.5 × 55.7 cm (18 1/4 × 21 7/8 in.); Framed: 77.5 × 87.7 × 9.6 cm (30 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 8

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 (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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