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A work made of oil on panel.

The Actor Maximilian Korn in a Landscape

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller · 1828

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Palette

Blue-grey
 36% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Bistre
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.2:1
Lamp black
 19% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1
Putty
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Apricot
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Brick
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.7:1

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
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Date
1828
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
31.5 × 26 cm (12 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Framed: 45.1 × 39.4 × 8.3 cm (17 3/4 × 15 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
Austria
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Mountains · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jane B. Gidwitz. 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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