A young woman in a dark hat and coat with light ruffled collar sits reading a large periodical held up in her gloved hands. Flowers and foliage are suggested behind her.

Woman Reading

Édouard Manet · 1880–82

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Palette

Smoke
36% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Ink
32% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1

Ash
21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

Fawn
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Slate blue
3% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.1:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1

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: Édouard Manet
Date: 1880–82
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 61.2 × 50.7 cm (24 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 73.1 × 9.9 cm (32 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Cities and streets · Reading and letters
Main colour: Grey · lightness 37, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn 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