Woman Mending

Camille Pissarro · 1895

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Palette

Iron
44% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Warm grey
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Taupe
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Mushroom
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Smoke
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Pale stone
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1

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: Camille Pissarro
Date: 1895
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 65.4 × 54.4 cm (25 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 75 × 10.2 cm (34 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Flowers · Interiors · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 44, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block. 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