A plucked chicken, a few stray feathers remaining, hangs upside-down by one foot, illuminated. Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible.

For Sunday's Dinner

William Harnett · 1888

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Soot
85% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1

Sepia
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.3:1

Raw umber
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1

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

Fawn
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Tan
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

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

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Artist: William Harnett
Date: 1888
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 94.3 × 53.6 cm (37 1/8 × 21 1/8 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead Fund. 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

For Sunday's Dinner

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