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John Singer Sargent · 1880

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Palette

Coffee
46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.5:1

Lamp black
33% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.0:1

Taupe
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

Raw umber
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Sepia
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

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: John Singer Sargent
Date: 1880
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 62.2 × 43.8 cm (24 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 20, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection. 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