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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham · 1845

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Palette

Linen
 64% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Bronze
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Mahogany
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1
Lamp black
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.6:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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 Caleb Bingham
American, Augusta County, Virginia 1811–1879 Kansas City, Missouri
Date
1845
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Cats
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 70, colourfulness 19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933. 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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