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A work made of drypoint in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper.

The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)

James McNeill Whistler · 1874/1875

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Palette

Oyster
 48% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Putty
 18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.9:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Mushroom
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1

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
1874/1875
Type
Print
Medium
Drypoint in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper
Size
Plate: 27.7 × 17.7 cm (10 15/16 × 7 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 18.7 cm (12 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Bryan Lathrop 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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