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Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze · 1851

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Palette

Bistre
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.1:1
Taupe
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1
Putty
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Fawn
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

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
Emanuel Leutze
American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.
Date
1851
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
149 x 255 in. (378.5 x 647.7 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Horses
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 13

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897. 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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