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Large painting of ancient arch ruins, statues, humans are small in comparison.

The Fountains

Hubert Robert · 1787–88

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Palette

Walnut
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.2:1
Bistre
 22% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1
Ash
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Raw umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
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
255.3 × 221.2 cm (100 1/2 × 88 1/8 in.); Framed: 265.5 × 233.4 cm (104 1/2 × 91 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Landscapes · Horses
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of William G. Hibbard. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

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