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The Moon at Night

The Moon at Night

George Inness · 1890

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Palette

Bistre
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.8:1

Dark chocolate
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.5:1

Coffee
20% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Dark olive
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.0:1

Soot
17% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1

Olive brown
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

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: George Inness
Date: 1890
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56.4 × 68.6 cm (22 1/8 × 27 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Night and moonlight
Main colour: Brown · lightness 15, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Edward B. Butler 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