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A Fortress in a Mountain Landscape at Sunrise by Jakob Wilhelm Hüber

A Fortress in a Mountain Landscape at Sunrise

Jakob Wilhelm Hüber · 1810

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Palette

Taupe
 42% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Powder blue
 26% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.3:1
Sky
 16% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.3:1
Blue-grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Pearl grey
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

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
Jakob Wilhelm Hüber
1787–1871
Date
1810
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
gouache with pen and black ink on wove paper
Size
sheet: 29 x 42 cm (11 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Place
Swiss
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains · Sunrise and sunset
Main colour
Blue · lightness 61, colourfulness 12

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce 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 1871: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1942. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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