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The Valley of Les Puits-Noir

Gustave Courbet · 1868

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Palette

Lamp black
 52% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.2:1
Bistre
 23% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.6:1
Dark olive
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Sage
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Celadon
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Gustave Courbet
Date
1868
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
111.1 × 137.8 cm (43 3/4 × 54 1/4 in.); Framed: 132.8 × 159.1 × 10.2 cm (52 1/4 × 62 5/8 × 4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan. 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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