Painting of a woman wearing a long black dress with a white scarf tied around her neck. She holds a bouquet of flowers and wears a wedding ring, and looks down toward the ground with a solemn disposition. The sun sets in the background, illuminating a far away church steeple.

Love's Melancholy

Constant Mayer · 1866

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Pewter
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Bistre
27% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1

Sepia
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Stone
16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

Fawn
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1

Tan
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

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: Constant Mayer
Date: 1866
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 51.4 × 35.6 cm (20 1/4 × 14 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Grey · lightness 43, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance. 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

Love's Melancholy

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