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Portrait of the Artist's Sister

Portrait of the Artist's Sister

Georges Lemmen · 1891

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Palette

Taupe
40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Prussian blue
31% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.3:1

Caramel
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Smoke
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Putty
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

Iron
4% of the image
Grey · 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: Georges Lemmen
Date: 1891
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 62 × 51 cm (24 7/16 × 20 1/16 in.); Framed: 75.6 × 64.2 × 7 cm (29 3/4 × 25 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place: Belgium
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 41, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. McKay 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