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A work made of oil on panel.

Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)

Alfred Stevens · c. 1867

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Palette

Chestnut
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.7:1
Dark olive
 26% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.5:1
Deep teal
 17% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.9:1
Dark ochre
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Sand
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Rust
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.0:1

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
Alfred Stevens
Date
c. 1867
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on panel
Size
55.5 × 43.2 cm (21 7/8 × 17 in.); Framed: 68 × 56.5 × 7 cm (26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Place
Belgium
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. 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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