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A work made of oil on canvas, in artist's painted and gilded wood shrine.

Ad Astra

Akseli Gallen-Kallela · 1894–96

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Palette

Silver
 51% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1
Tan
 38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Prussian blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.0:1
Straw
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.4:1
Chestnut
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.7:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.1:1

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
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Date
1894–96
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas, in artist's painted and gilded wood shrine
Size
Canvas: 76 × 85 cm (29 15/16 × 33 7/16 in.); Framed: 129.6 × 116.9 × 14.7 cm (51 1/16 × 46 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
Place
Finland
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, The Lacy Armour Fund; Old Masters Society; European Painting General Sales Proceeds, Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester, Josephine and John Louis funds, through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; European Painting Acquisition, Carol Rosenthal-Groeling, and Irving Lauf funds.. 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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