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A work made of oil on yellow poplar panel.

Woman with a Book

Jonas Welch Holman · 1827–30

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Palette

Sepia
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Mushroom
 27% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1
Soot
 23% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1
Moss
 16% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.7:1
Old gold
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Brick
 1% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.9:1

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
Jonas Welch Holman
American, 1805–1873
Date
1827–30
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on yellow poplar panel
Size
70.8 × 54.6 cm (27 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
Place
Philadelphia
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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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