Study of Apples from Nature

William Rickarby Miller · 1863

View at the National Gallery of Art ↗

Palette

Umber
30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

Dark chocolate
25% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.3:1

Fawn
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Old gold
13% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.4:1

Rust
13% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.8:1

Copper
4% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.7:1

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: William Rickarby Miller
1818–1893
Date: 1863
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on board
Size: overall: 18.42 × 26.35 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Place: American
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 31

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1893: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1964. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Study of Apples from Nature

Palette

Details

Works that share this palette