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Black and blue print of gaunt girl, sad expression and thinning hair.

The Sick Child I

Edvard Munch · 1896

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Palette

Linen
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Iron
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Silver
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Pewter
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Ash
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1
Soot
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1

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
Edvard Munch
printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936)
Date
1896
Type
Print
Medium
Transfer lithograph printed from two stones in pale blue and black ink on ivory wove paper
Size
Image: 42 × 57.2 cm (16 9/16 × 22 9/16 in.); Sheet: 48.3 × 63.5 cm (19 1/16 × 25 in.)
Place
Norway
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 62, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Fund. 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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