Ripening Pears

Joseph Decker · c. 1884/1885

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Palette

Forest
48% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.8:1

Duck egg
17% of the image
Teal · text contrast 7.7:1

Pale gold
16% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.0:1

Green earth
8% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

Olive
7% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

Dark ochre
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

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

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Artist: Joseph Decker
1853–1924
Date: c. 1884/1885
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 30.5 x 61 cm (12 x 24 in.)
Place: American
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Green · lightness 46, colourfulness 28

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1924: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1995. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Ripening Pears

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