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Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

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Palette

Soot
77% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1

Bistre
8% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1

Olive brown
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1

Coffee
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.1:1

Bronze
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

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: Thomas Gainsborough
British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London
Date: 1787
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 58 1/8 x 47 3/8 in. (147.6 x 120.3 cm)
Period: 18th century
Themes: Trees and forests
Main colour: Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules