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A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on light gray china paper.

La Vieille aux Loques (The Old Woman with Rags)

James McNeill Whistler · 1858

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Palette

Bone white
 47% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Soot
 16% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1
Pale stone
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Iron
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.3:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

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
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date
1858
Type
Print
Medium
Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on light gray China paper
Size
Plate: 20.7 × 14.7 cm (8 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26 × 20.2 cm (10 1/4 × 8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 66, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Frederick Keppel. 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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