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A work made of watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper.

An Artist at His Easel

John Singer Sargent · 1914

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Palette

Mushroom
 54% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Iron
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Umber
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Tan
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Blue-grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Chalk
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.8:1

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
John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925
Date
1914
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper
Size
40 × 53.4 cm (15 3/4 × 21 1/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
20th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick. 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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