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A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory japanese paper.

Street at Saverne

James McNeill Whistler · 1858

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Palette

Ivory
 46% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1
Sepia
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Graphite
 16% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.0:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Putty
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1
Fawn
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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

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Artist
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date
1858
Type
Print
Medium
Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory Japanese paper
Size
Plate: 20.5 × 15.9 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 27.7 × 20.5 cm (10 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 64, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Ethel Wrenn. 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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