The Marsh

Charles-François Daubigny · 1871

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Palette

Khaki
56% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Dark olive
21% of the image
Green · text contrast 13.4:1

Green earth
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

Olive brown
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1

Bistre
5% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1

Raw umber
4% 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: Charles-François Daubigny
Date: 1871
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 34.4 × 58.2 cm (13 9/16 × 22 15/16 in.); Framed: 46.4 × 70.2 × 5.1 cm (18 1/4 × 27 5/8 × 2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Barbizon School · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Boats and ships · Birds
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 42, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, Henry Field Memorial 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