Painting of four figures in blue, red, brown dresses playing croquet.

Croquet Scene

Winslow Homer · 1866

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Palette

Bistre
50% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.4:1

Olive brown
33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1

Slate
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.0:1

Warm grey
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Brick
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.0:1

Stone
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

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

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Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1866
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40.3 × 66.2 cm (15 7/8 × 26 1/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund. 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

Croquet Scene

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