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A work made of oil on canvas.

This Little Pig Went to Market

Lilly Martin Spencer · c. 1857

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Palette

Soot
 36% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1
Chalk
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1
Sepia
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Bottle green
 6% of the image
Green · text contrast 13.0:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Lilly Martin Spencer
Date
c. 1857
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Black · lightness 51, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment Fund; through prior acquisition of George F. Harding Collection; through prior gift of Chicago Normal School Alumni. 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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