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A work made of oil on yellow poplar panel.

Man with a Pen

Jonas Welch Holman · 1827–30

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Palette

Bistre
 30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1
Lamp black
 28% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Raw umber
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Moss
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.7:1
Putty
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.6:1
Old gold
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 14

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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