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The Bird Catcher

Thomas Couture · c. 1857

Palette

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

Thomas Couture

Date

c. 1857

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

40.8 × 59.6 cm (16 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 55.6 × 74.3 × 8 cm (21 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)

Place

France

Period

19th century

Themes

Gardens · Birds

Main colour

Brown · lightness 34, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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