First Landing of Christopher Columbus

Frederick Kemmelmeyer · 1800/1805

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Palette

Duck egg
38% of the image
Teal · text contrast 9.6:1

Dark olive
35% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.1:1

Khaki
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Pewter
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

Putty
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Cinnamon
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

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: Frederick Kemmelmeyer
1736–1848
Date: 1800/1805
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 70.1 x 92.6 cm (27 5/8 x 36 7/16 in.)
Place: American
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Teal · lightness 51, colourfulness 14

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 1848: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1919. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

First Landing of Christopher Columbus

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