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A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white china paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé).

Liverdun

James McNeill Whistler · 1858

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Palette

Chalk
 91% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.9:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.3:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.8:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Taupe
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date
1858
Type
Print
Medium
Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)
Size
Plate: 10.9 × 15.4 cm (4 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 35.1 cm (11 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 93, colourfulness 8

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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