Portrait of a Boy, No. 10 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150

Gertrude Käsebier · 1897

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Palette

Smoke
79% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1

Ash
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Putty
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Stone
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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: Gertrude Käsebier
American, 1852–1934
Date: 1897
Type: Photograph
Medium: Photogravure
Size: Image/paper: 15.6 × 12.5 cm (6 3/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Hinged paper: 19.9 × 15 cm (7 7/8 × 5 15/16 in.); Affixed glassine: 36.8 × 26.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Pictorialism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 45, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Daniel, Richard, and Jonathan Logan. 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