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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt · 1863

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Palette

Pearl grey
 36% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Dark olive
 34% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.5:1
Olive brown
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Pewter
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Sky
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.8:1

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
Albert Bierstadt
American, Solingen 1830–1902 New York
Date
1863
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. (186.7 x 306.7 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains · Horses
Main colour
Green · lightness 52, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1907. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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