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Brown print on cream paper of two young female figures seated beside each other at a table, looking closely at a piece of paper.

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Mary Cassatt · 1890

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Palette

Linen
 49% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Shell pink
 35% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.8:1
Bone white
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.9:1
Pale stone
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.0:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.5:1

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
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Date
1890
Type
Print
Medium
Drypoint in brown ink on ivory laid paper
Size
Image/plate: 15.8 × 23.2 cm (6 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 31.1 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 86, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair 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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The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

Repose, Mary Cassatt Repose Mary Cassatt, c. 1890 Mercury (after Pigalle), Paul Cézanne Mercury (after Pigalle) Paul Cézanne, 1885/1895 Maternal Caress, Mary Cassatt Maternal Caress Mary Cassatt, 1921 Seated Male Nude, Arms Uplifted, John Singer Sargent Seated Male Nude, Arms Uplifted John Singer Sargent, 1917/21 The Artist's Father Reading, Mary Cassatt The Artist's Father Reading Mary Cassatt, c. 1883 Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso), Leonardo da Vinci Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso) Leonardo da Vinci, 1480–85

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