Painting of a resting man and woman with assorted livestock, arched ruins and a lush landscape behind them.

Pastoral Landscape with Ruins

Adriaen van de Velde · 1664

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Dark chocolate
51% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1

Sepia
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1

Pewter
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Lavender grey
10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.3:1

Iron
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1

Caramel
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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

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Artist: Adriaen van de Velde
Date: 1664
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 67 × 78.4 cm (26 3/8 × 30 7/8 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 92.4 × 6.4 cm (32 × 36 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: Holland
Period: 17th century
Themes: Landscapes · Horses
Main colour: Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Sidney A. Kent Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Pastoral Landscape with Ruins

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