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Painting of Greek landscape, classical architecture, yellow, red robed man reading.

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

Nicolas Poussin · 1640

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Palette

Bistre
 59% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.0:1
Raw umber
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Sky
 13% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.8:1
Silver
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Cinnamon
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Caramel
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Nicolas Poussin
Date
1640
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
100.3 × 136.4 cm (39 1/2 × 53 5/8 in.); Framed: 128.3 × 164.5 × 12.1 cm (50 1/2 × 64 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Renaissance · 17th century
Themes
Landscapes · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Brown · lightness 33, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection. 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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