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Courtyard

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · c. 1855

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Palette

Soot
 48% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.3:1
Iron
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Ash
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1
Smoke
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Chalk
 9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.3:1
Pearl grey
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1

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
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Date
c. 1855
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
49 × 38.2 cm (19 1/4 × 15 in.); Framed: 58.2 × 47.4 × 6.4 cm (22 7/8 × 18 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships
Main colour
Black · lightness 38, colourfulness 0

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

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