Woman in Black

Artist unknown · 1820–40

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Palette

Lamp black
75% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.7:1

Ash
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Charcoal
5% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1

Dusty rose
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1

Pewter
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1

Slate
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1

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: Artist unknown
Date: 1820–40
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 67.3 × 57.5 cm (26 1/2 × 22 5/8 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 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

Woman in Black

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