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Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 45% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1
Coffee
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.1:1
Sepia
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Lamp black
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.8:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1

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
Caspar David Friedrich
German, Greifswald 1774–1840 Dresden
Date
ca. 1825–30
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
13 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (34.9 x 43.8 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight
Main colour
Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wrightsman Fund, 2000. 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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