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Broken Eggs by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 56% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1
Walnut
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1
Cinnamon
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris
Date
1756
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 23, colourfulness 15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920. 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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