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Dark moody painting of crumbling castle tower and walls amidst river and forest.

Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond

Jacob van Ruisdael · 1650–55

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Palette

Charcoal
 44% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1
Iron
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Walnut
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.3:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · 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
Jacob van Ruisdael
Date
1650–55
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
98 × 130 cm (38 7/8 × 51 3/8 in.); Framed: 101 × 131.5 × 8.6 cm (39 3/4 × 51 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Place
Holland
Period
17th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer 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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