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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Old Mill

George Inness · 1849

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Palette

Bistre
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.9:1
Olive brown
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Pale stone
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Green earth
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Lichen
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Olive
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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
George Inness
Date
1849
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
75.9 × 107 cm (29 7/8 × 42 1/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, The William Owen Goodman and Erna Sawyer Goodman 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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