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A work made of oil on canvas.

On the Nile

Eugène Fromentin · 1871

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Palette

Ash
 67% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Sepia
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1
Putty
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Smoke
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Soot
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.1:1
Warm grey
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

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
Eugène Fromentin
Date
1871
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
63.8 × 110.6 cm (25 × 43 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 127 × 6.4 cm (31 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Nickerson Collection. 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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