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John Singer Sargent · 1882

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Palette

Soot
74% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.3:1

Mahogany
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.0:1

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

Sepia
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

Warm grey
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Graphite
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.9:1

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: John Singer Sargent
Date: 1882
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 129.5 × 91.4 cm (51 × 36 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Brooks McCormick. 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