Souvenir of Italy

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · 1855–60

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Palette

Dark chocolate
58% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1

Pale stone
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.1:1

Sepia
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.0:1

Stone
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Taupe
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Straw
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1

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: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Date: 1855–60
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 82.6 × 66.4 cm (32 1/2 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 99.7 × 83.9 × 9.6 cm (39 1/4 × 33 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 33, 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