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People by the Blue Lake by August Macke

People by the Blue Lake

August Macke · 1913

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Palette

Charcoal
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1
Pearl grey
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1
Poppy
 12% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.5:1
Pale gold
 10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.6:1
Terracotta
 7% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.3:1
Sage
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.8:1

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
August Macke
1887–1914
Date
1913
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
overall: 60.32 × 48.26 cm (23 3/4 × 19 in.)
Place
German
Period
20th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Black · lightness 56, colourfulness 22

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1914: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1985. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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