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A work made of pastel, with stumping, on gray laid paper with blue fibers.

Self-Portrait

Berthe Morisot · c. 1885

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Palette

Stone
 77% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Smoke
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Warm grey
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1

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
Berthe Morisot
French, 1841-1895
Date
c. 1885
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pastel, with stumping, on gray laid paper with blue fibers
Size
48 × 38 cm (18 15/16 × 15 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein 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

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