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Untitled (Cracked Watermelon) by Charles Ethan Porter

Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)

Charles Ethan Porter · ca. 1890

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Palette

Dark olive
 43% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.3:1
Raw umber
 27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Lamp black
 11% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.7:1
Chestnut
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1
Madder
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.9:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

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
Charles Ethan Porter
1847–1923
Date
ca. 1890
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
19 1/8 × 28 3/16 in. (48.6 × 71.6 cm)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Green · lightness 28, colourfulness 17

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015. 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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