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A work made of oil on canvas.

Water Carriers on the Nile

John Singer Sargent · 1891

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Palette

Taupe
 33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Sepia
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1
Graphite
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1
Ash
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Moss
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1
Forest
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.1:1

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
1891
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
54.3 × 65.4 cm (21 3/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Early Modernism · 19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 44, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester 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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