Landscape

Théodore Rousseau · c. 1835

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Palette

Lamp black
60% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.8:1

Pale stone
24% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.4:1

Dark olive
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.9:1

Sepia
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.8:1

Pewter
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Bronze
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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: Théodore Rousseau
Date: c. 1835
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 33.2 × 43.4 cm (13 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.); Framed: 61 × 71.2 × 8.6 cm (24 × 28 × 3 3/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes
Main colour: Black · lightness 26, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Anthony Michel. 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