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Ecuadorian landscape with people, palm trees, waterfall, and volcano in background.

View of Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church · 1857

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Palette

Ash
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Sepia
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.9:1
Bistre
 20% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.3:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Raw umber
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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

Details

Artist
Frederic Edwin Church
Date
1857
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
62.2 × 92.7 cm (24 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Mountains
Main colour
Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jennette Hamlin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dana Webster. 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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