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Nude Girl with Arms Raised

A work made of drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper.

Nude Girl with Arms Raised

James McNeill Whistler · 1873/78

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Palette

Pale stone
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1

Oyster
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1

Putty
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

Silver
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1

Mushroom
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

Pearl grey
4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.7:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1873/78
Type: Print
Medium: Drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper
Size: Plate: 19.2 × 10.1 cm (7 9/16 × 4 in.); Sheet, sight, bound: 38.1 × 24 cm (15 × 9 1/2 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Reading and letters
Main colour: Grey · lightness 77, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster. 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