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Self-Portrait

Frédéric Bazille · 1865–66

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Palette

Soot
 79% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Iron
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Smoke
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Ash
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1

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
Frédéric Bazille
Date
1865–66
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
108.9 × 71.1 cm (42 7/8 × 28 3/8 in.); Framed: 136.3 × 100.4 × 10.8 cm (53 5/8 × 39 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits · Work and rural life
Main colour
Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Woods in memory of Mrs. Edward Harris Brewer. 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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