The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller · 1824

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Palette

Umber
38% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.3:1

Bistre
35% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.0:1

Raw umber
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Fawn
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

Slate blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.8:1

Burnt sienna
1% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.9:1

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: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
1793–1865
Date: 1824
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on wood
Size: overall: 40.5 x 32.5 cm (15 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Place: Austrian
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 18

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Marlene, Paul and John Herring. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1865: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1936. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife

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