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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · 1870–86

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Palette

Dark chocolate
40% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1

Umber
35% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.8:1

Cinnamon
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1

Dark olive
10% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.3:1

Rust
2% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.8:1

Chestnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1

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: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Date: 1870–86
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 38.5 × 26.2 cm (15 1/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Framed: 59.1 × 46.4 × 6.4 cm (23 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Silvio Del Chicca. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules