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A work made of watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping over graphite on ivory wove paper.

Workmen at Carrara

John Singer Sargent · 1911

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Palette

Shell pink
 48% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1
Mushroom
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Biscuit
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1

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
John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925
Date
1911
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping over graphite on ivory wove paper
Size
40.4 × 53.4 cm (15 15/16 × 21 1/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Impressionism · 20th century
Themes
Work and rural life
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 71, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan 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

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