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The Dreamer (La Rêveuse)

The Dreamer (La Rêveuse)

Jean-Antoine Watteau · 1712–14

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Palette

Bistre
50% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.1:1

Ash
17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

Umber
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1

Sepia
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

Pewter
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

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

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: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Date: 1712–14
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 23.2 × 17 cm (9 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Framed: 35 × 28.9 × 7 cm (13 3/4 × 11 3/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits · Landscapes
Main colour: Black · lightness 32, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules