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Fruit Still Life by Robert Seldon Duncanson

Fruit Still Life

Robert Seldon Duncanson · c. 1849

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Palette

Coffee
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.9:1
Raw umber
 33% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Sand
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1
Honey
 5% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.2:1
Burnt orange
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.4:1
Burnt sienna
 2% 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

Details

Artist
Robert Seldon Duncanson
1821–1872
Date
c. 1849
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
overall: 34.29 × 48.26 cm (13 1/2 × 19 in.)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 22

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from the Reserve for Purchase of Works of Art, 1968). Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1872: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1943. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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