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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Fisherman's Family

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1887

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Palette

Taupe
 35% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Pale stone
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Powder blue
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.6:1
Lavender grey
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Slate blue
 9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.3:1
Sepia
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1

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
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Date
1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
82.5 × 71.8 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/4 in.); Framed: 102.9 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm (40 1/2 × 36 × 4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Flowers · Mothers and children · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, 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

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