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Woman at Her Toilette

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette

Berthe Morisot · 1875–80

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Palette

Ash
67% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Smoke
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1

Raw umber
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

Taupe
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Sepia
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

Graphite
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1

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

Details

Artist: Berthe Morisot
Date: 1875–80
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60.3 × 80.4 cm (23 3/4 × 31 5/8 in.); Framed: 85.8 × 105.5 × 10.5 cm (33 3/4 × 41 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Interiors
Main colour: Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Stickney 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