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Auguste Delâtre, Printer

A work made of etching, with drypoint cancellation, in black ink on ivory laid paper.

Auguste Delâtre, Printer

James McNeill Whistler · 1858/59

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Palette

Putty
77% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.2:1

Stone
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Taupe
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Sepia
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

Olive brown
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Bistre
1% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.2:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1858/59
Type: Print
Medium: Etching, with drypoint cancellation, in black ink on ivory laid paper
Size: Plate: 8.3 × 5.5 cm (3 5/16 × 2 3/16 in.); Sheet, sight, bound: 38 × 23.5 cm (15 × 9 5/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Reading and letters
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster. 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