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The Forest in Winter at Sunset by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 63% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Bistre
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1
Umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.7:1
Lamp black
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.8:1
Bronze
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Soot
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1

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
Théodore Rousseau
French, Paris 1812–1867 Barbizon
Date
ca. 1846–67
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
64 x 102 3/8 in. (162.6 x 260 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Winter and snow · Sunrise and sunset · Trees and forests
Main colour
Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of P. A. B. Widener, 1911. 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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