Nocturnal landscape painting with lush trees and a large patch of sky with visible brushstrokes. Multiple small, seated figures line the foreground.

Landscape with Figures

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz · c. 1870

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Palette

Charcoal
62% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.8:1

Ash
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1

Pearl grey
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1

Chalk
8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.6:1

Pewter
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Slate
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

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: Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
Date: c. 1870
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 26 × 34.9 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 61 × 9.6 cm (20 1/2 × 24 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Barbizon School · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Night and moonlight
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

Landscape with Figures

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