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Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain)

Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain)

Henri-Edmond Cross · 1909

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Palette

Pewter
54% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Sand
20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1

Pale stone
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Old gold
10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.5:1

Lamp black
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.0:1

Dusty rose
1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.9:1

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: Henri-Edmond Cross
French, Douai 1856–1910 Saint-Clair
Date: 1909
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 29 x 35 1/2 in. (73.7 x 90.2 cm)
Period: 20th century
Themes: Landscapes · Mountains
Main colour: Grey · lightness 58, colourfulness 18

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Museum record. Public domain. United States: The Met marks it public domain (isPublicDomain = True). Europe: Artist died 1910: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1981. Last checked 2026-10-31 (isPublicDomain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules