The Exhumation

Linton Park · c. 1890

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Palette

Umber
40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1

Ash
33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Lavender grey
9% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1

Bistre
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.7:1

Periwinkle
7% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.7:1

Dark ochre
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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: Linton Park
1826–1906
Date: c. 1890
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 61 x 83.8 cm (24 x 33 in.)
Place: American
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 43, colourfulness 22

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1906: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1977. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Exhumation

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