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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Obelisk

Hubert Robert · 1787

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Palette

Bistre
 72% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.0:1
Umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1
Stone
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Pewter
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

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
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
255.6 × 223.5 cm (100 7/8 × 88 in.); Framed: 265.5 × 233.4 cm (104 1/2 × 91 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Landscapes · Cities and streets
Main colour
Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Clarence Buckingham. 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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