Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown. Water flows through the mill wheel under a cloudy sky of gray and blue. Three individuals can be seen in the distance at left.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof

Meindert Hobbema · c. 1665

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Palette

Warm grey
38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

Dark chocolate
31% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1

Dark olive
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

Raw umber
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

Umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

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: Meindert Hobbema
Date: c. 1665
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81.3 × 110 cm (32 × 43 1/4 in.); Framed: 101.3 × 130.5 × 8.3 cm (39 7/8 × 51 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place: Holland
Period: Realism · 17th century
Themes: Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Birds
Main colour: Brown · lightness 34, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan. 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

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof

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