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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Old Temple

Hubert Robert · 1787/88

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Palette

Walnut
 40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1
Dark chocolate
 25% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Raw umber
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Silver
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Grey · 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

Details

Artist
Hubert Robert
Date
1787/88
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
255 × 223.2 cm (100 3/8 × 87 7/8 in.); Framed: 265.5 × 233.4 cm (104 1/2 × 91 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Adolphus C. Bartlett. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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