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A work made of soft ground and aquatint in black on cream laid paper.

At the Dressing Table

Mary Cassatt · c. 1880

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Palette

Shell pink
 45% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1
Mushroom
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Warm grey
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Putty
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Linen
 7% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Biscuit
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

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
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Date
c. 1880
Type
Print
Medium
Soft ground and aquatint in black on cream laid paper
Size
Image: 32.1 × 20.9 cm (12 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Plate: 34.9 × 22.8 cm (13 3/4 × 9 in.); Sheet: 43.1 × 30.8 cm (17 × 12 3/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 75, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham 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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