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A work made of pastel on pink laid paper with red fibrous inclusions (pieced at bottom), stretched and edge mounted on a honeycomb paper panel.

Young Girl Holding a Basket

Berthe Morisot · 1891

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Palette

Sand
 44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Putty
 21% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.1:1
Sage
 15% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1
Honey
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Khaki
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.7:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
Date
1891
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pastel on pink laid paper with red fibrous inclusions (pieced at bottom), stretched and edge mounted on a honeycomb paper panel
Size
45.9 × 83.8 cm (18 1/8 × 33 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 69, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial 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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