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A work made of oil on canvas.

The Annunciation

George Hitchcock · 1887

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Palette

Dark olive
 30% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.9:1
Olive brown
 27% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.6:1
Stone
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Pearl grey
 10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Dark chocolate
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1
Taupe
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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 Hitchcock
Date
1887
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
158.8 × 204.5 cm (62 1/2 × 80 1/2 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Green · lightness 41, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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