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A work made of color aquatint and drypoint, with additions in brush and gold, on ivory laid paper.

Afternoon Tea Party

Mary Cassatt · 1890–91

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Palette

Putty
 52% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1
Linen
 34% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Smoke
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Blue-grey
 3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Mary Cassatt
printed with Leroy (French, active 1876-1900)
Date
1890–91
Type
Print
Medium
Color aquatint and drypoint, with additions in brush and gold, on ivory laid paper
Size
Image/plate: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 30.1 cm (17 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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

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