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A work made of oil on canvas.

A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim

George Frederic Watts · 1868

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Palette

Lamp black
73% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.2:1
Dark chocolate
12% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Umber
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.2:1
Cinnamon
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Dark ochre
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Honey
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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

Details

Artist
George Frederic Watts
Date
1868
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
94 × 58.6 cm (37 × 23 in.); Framed: 98.2 × 76.9 × 5.8 cm (38 5/8 × 30 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place
England
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Music and dance
Main colour
Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Charles L. Hutchinson. 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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