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Colour palette

  • #242620
  • #3E4230
  • #B4C1BC
  • #585D41
  • #777D5F
  • #9FAC9E

Approximate colour proportions

  • #24262024.9%
  • #3E423023.6%
  • #B4C1BC17.1%
  • #585D4114.1%
  • #777D5F13.0%
  • #9FAC9E7.3%

Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.

CC0 Paris Musées / Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris · Petit Palais, Paris Musées
Image licence: CC0 · Web image resized for display. · Museum record & image source ↗

France · 1867–68

A Siesta during the Hay Harvest

Gustave Courbet

Date
1867–68
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Not listed in the source consulted
Country / context
France
Movement / tradition
Realism · Source ↗
Collection
Petit Palais, Paris Musées
Pathway
European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK

Resting bodies and harvested land connect human activity with the landscape. Look for changes in paint handling between figures, ground and distant space.

Original educational overview · based on the linked museum record
A MOMENT TO LOOK

Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?

Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.

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