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Venice: Night of the Festival of the Redeemer

Venice: Night of the Festival of the Redeemer

Henri-Edmond Cross · 1903

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Palette

Ash
37% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Steel blue
32% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1

Denim
16% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.8:1

Pale stone
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1

Sand
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1

Indigo
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.2:1

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: 1903
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor over pencil on white wove paper
Size: 5 1/2 × 9 9/16 in. (14 × 24.3 cm) Framed: 16 1/4 in. × 21 1/4 in. × 1 in. (41.3 × 54 × 2.5 cm)
Period: 20th century
Themes: Night and moonlight · Cities and streets
Main colour: Blue · lightness 56, colourfulness 14

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