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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

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Palette

Dark chocolate
61% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.3:1

Sepia
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1

Iron
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1

Blue-grey
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.2:1

Pewter
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

Olive brown
3% of the image
Brown · 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: Nicolas Poussin
French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome
Date: 1658
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm)
Period: 17th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1924. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules