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A Mill with a Fortified Bridge, a Rowing Boat in the Foreground by Roelant Savery

A Mill with a Fortified Bridge, a Rowing Boat in the Foreground

Roelant Savery · 1596–1639

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Palette

Pale stone
 41% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1
Oyster
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Putty
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1
Bone white
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Roelant Savery
Flemish, Kortrijk 1576–1639 Utrecht
Date
1596–1639
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Size
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (19.8 × 19.8 cm)
Place
Holland
Period
16th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Cities and streets
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 79, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024. 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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