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David Gilmour Blythe · 1864

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Bistre
48% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.2:1

Olive brown
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

Khaki
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Bronze
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Sand
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.8:1

Dark ochre
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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

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Artist: David Gilmour Blythe
American, 1815–1865
Date: 1864
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 52.7 × 73 cm (20 3/4 × 28 3/4 in.)
Place: Virginia
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, Ada Turnbull Hertle 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

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