Jean Renoir Sewing

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1899–1900

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Palette

Slate
40% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

Caramel
37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

Raw umber
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1

Putty
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1

Stone
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Honey
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1

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: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1899–1900
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 55.4 × 46.3 cm (21 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.); Framed: 68.3 × 60.1 × 6.1 cm (26 7/8 × 23 5/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 45, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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