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An Alpine Scene

An Alpine Scene

Gustave Courbet · 1874

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Palette

Charcoal
58% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.1:1

Warm grey
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Umber
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Putty
6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

Iron
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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: 1874
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60 × 73 cm (23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 96.6 × 7.7 cm (33 × 38 × 3 in.)
Place: France
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Mountains · Winter and snow
Main colour: Black · lightness 30, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger 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