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Crossing the Ford

Crossing the Ford

George Inness · 1848

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Palette

Dark chocolate
28% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1

Putty
26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.9:1

Sepia
23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Bronze
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

Khaki
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

Caramel
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

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: George Inness
Date: 1848
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 57.2 × 62.2 cm (22 1/2 × 24 1/2 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Edith Kepke MacDonald. 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