A work made of transfer lithograph in gray on purple wove japanese vellum.

Girl with Bowl

James McNeill Whistler · 1895

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Palette

Slate blue
83% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.2:1

Denim
10% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.5:1

Ash
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1

Prussian blue
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.3:1

Slate
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.2:1

Blue-grey
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1895
Type: Print
Medium: Transfer lithograph in gray on purple wove Japanese vellum
Size: Image: 13.6 × 6.7 cm (5 3/8 × 2 11/16 in.); Sheet: 30.3 × 22.2 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Blue · lightness 32, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Girl with Bowl

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