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The Plate of Apples

The Plate of Apples

Paul Cézanne · c. 1877

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Palette

Bronze
49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Pewter
38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Raw umber
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

Ash
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Old gold
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Khaki
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1

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: Paul Cézanne
Date: c. 1877
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 45.8 × 54.7 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Framed: 71.8 × 82.6 × 10.2 cm (28 1/4 × 32 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 52, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Kate L. Brewster. 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