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The Shepherd's Song by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Shepherd's Song

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891

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Palette

Warm grey
 37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Blue-grey
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Iron
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1
Lamp black
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.4:1
Khaki
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

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
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris
Date
1891
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
41 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (104.5 x 109.9 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 49, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906. 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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