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A work made of oil on canvas.

Self-Portrait

Walter Shirlaw · 1878

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 43% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.7:1
Coffee
 41% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Mahogany
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Walnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1
Umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Raw umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

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
Walter Shirlaw
Date
1878
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
70.2 × 53.4 cm (27 5/8 × 21 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 12, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Joseph M. Rogers. 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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