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Landscape with Cattle

A work made of brush and blackish brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper.

Landscape with Cattle

Jean-François Millet · 1866/1867

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Palette

Oyster
73% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1

Pale stone
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1

Putty
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.7:1

Stone
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1

Mushroom
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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

Details

Artist: Jean-François Millet
French, 1814-1875
Date: 1866/1867
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Brush and blackish brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Size: 10.9 × 15.5 cm (4 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 80, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. Philip Pinsof, Silverstein and Pinsof Inc.. 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