The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
Thomas Eakins · 1871
Palette
Slate
Blue-grey
Raw umber
Charcoal
Ash
Dark ochre
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
- Thomas Eakins
American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Date
- 1871
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 32 1/4 x 46 1/4 in. (81.9 x 117.5 cm)
- Place
- American
- Period
- 19th century
- Themes
- Rivers and lakes
- Main colour
- Blue · lightness 41, colourfulness 10
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund and George D. Pratt Gift, 1934. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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