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The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten) by Ferdinand Hodler

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

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Palette

Silver
 62% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1
Ash
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Teal
 12% of the image
Teal · text contrast 4.9:1
Dusty rose
 4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.3:1
Slate
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Sage
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss, Bern 1853–1918 Geneva
Date
1896
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
98 1/2 × 51 3/8 in. (250.2 × 130.5 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 66, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, European Paintings Funds, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, funds from various donors, and Bequests of Collis P. Huntington and Isaac D. Fletcher, by exchange, 2013. 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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