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A work made of oil on canvas.

Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)

John Singer Sargent · 1891

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Palette

Bistre
 40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1
Dark chocolate
 32% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1
Raw umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Iron
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1
Caramel
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1

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
John Singer Sargent
Date
1891
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
190.5 × 61 cm (75 × 24 in.)
Place
Egypt
Period
Realism · 19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 25, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Anonymous loan. 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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