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The Lake of Zug by J. M. W. Turner

The Lake of Zug

J. M. W. Turner · 1843

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Palette

Parchment
 38% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.1:1
Steel blue
 18% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.8:1
Tan
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Sand
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Blue-grey
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Taupe
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

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
J. M. W. Turner
British, London 1775–1851 London
Date
1843
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache) with reductive techniques over graphite
Size
11 3/4 × 18 3/8 in. (29.8 × 46.6 cm) Framed: 21 × 27 in. (53.3 × 68.6 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes · Mountains
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 19

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Fund, 1959. 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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