A work made of drypoint in black ink on cream japanese paper.

Florence Leyland

James McNeill Whistler · 1874

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Palette

Linen
73% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.4:1

Putty
13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1

Mushroom
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Iron
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.9:1

Charcoal
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.5:1

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

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1874
Type: Print
Medium: Drypoint in black ink on cream Japanese paper
Size: Plate: 21.4 × 13.4 cm (8 7/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 27.9 × 19.7 cm (11 × 7 13/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 79, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection. 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

Florence Leyland

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