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Painting of two fishermen in small wooden boat on rocky seas.

The Herring Net

Winslow Homer · 1885

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Palette

Taupe
 60% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Bistre
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.4:1
Iron
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Warm grey
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Bottle green
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.4:1

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
Winslow Homer
Date
1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
76.5 × 122.9 cm (30 1/8 × 48 3/8 in.)
Place
Prouts Neck
Period
Realism · Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 14

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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