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A work made of etching and aquatint in red-brown ink on japanese paper.

The Silk Dress

Paul-Albert Besnard · 1887

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Palette

Bone white
 53% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1
Burnt orange
 18% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.2:1
Apricot
 12% of the image
Orange · text contrast 8.6:1
Peach
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.6:1
Biscuit
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1
Terracotta
 3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.6:1

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
Paul-Albert Besnard
French, 1849-1934
Date
1887
Type
Print
Medium
Etching and aquatint in red-brown ink on Japanese paper
Size
Plate: 37 × 23.5 cm (14 5/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 33.3 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Orange · lightness 82, colourfulness 26

Art Institute of Chicago, Albert H. Wolf Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1934: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2005. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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