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The Love Song by Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

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Palette

Charcoal
 43% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.7:1
Sepia
 32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Chestnut
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.2:1
Caramel
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Sand
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

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
Edward Burne-Jones
British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham
Date
1868–77
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
45 x 61 3/8 in. (114.3 x 155.9 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1947. 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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