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Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard

Bernard d'Agesci · c. 1780

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 39% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.4:1
Fawn
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Coffee
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.9:1
Raw umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Cinnamon
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Terracotta
 3% of the image
Pink · 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
Bernard d'Agesci
Date
c. 1780
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81.3 × 64.8 cm (32 × 25 1/2 in.); Framed: 105.5 × 89.9 × 11.5 cm (41 1/2 × 35 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Themes
Interiors · Music and dance · Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Harold T. Martin Fund; Lacy Armour Endowment; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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