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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Irish Question

De Scott Evans · 1880s

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Palette

Cinnamon
 65% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.0:1
Dark chocolate
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.4:1
Dark ochre
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Caramel
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Sand
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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
De Scott Evans
American, 1847–1898
Date
1880s
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 34, colourfulness 32

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Carol W. Wardlaw and Jill Burnside Zeno; Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment Fund. 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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