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Mrs. Noah Smith and Family

Ezra Ames · c. 1830

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Palette

Ink
 45% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.8:1
Dark olive
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.4:1
Sand
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Bronze
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1
Oxblood
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.7:1
Vermilion
 4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1

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
Ezra Ames
American, 1768–1836
Date
c. 1830
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
160.5 × 112.7 cm (65 × 83 3/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 25, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham. 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

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