The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · 1824

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Umber
28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.0:1

Sand
20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1

Bistre
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.2:1

Tan
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Caramel
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Bronze
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

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

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Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Date: 1824
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 57.7 × 78.8 cm (22 5/8 × 31 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 97.2 cm (30 × 38 1/4 in.)
Place: Denmark
Period: 19th century
Themes: Interiors · Reading and letters
Main colour: Brown · lightness 43, colourfulness 23

Art Institute of Chicago, European Painting Purchase fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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

The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura

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