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A work made of burnished aquatint and drypoint on heavy wove, cream paper.

On the Waves of Love

Edvard Munch · 1896

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Palette

Linen
 61% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Chalk
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Edvard Munch
printed by Otto Felsing (German, born 1854)
Date
1896
Type
Print
Medium
Burnished aquatint and drypoint on heavy wove, cream paper
Size
Plate: 22.1 × 29 cm (8 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34.8 × 50.8 cm (13 3/4 × 20 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 74, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham 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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