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

Under the Lamp

Mary Cassatt · c. 1882

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Palette

Linen
 42% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.6:1
Graphite
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Putty
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Bone white
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.7:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

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. 1882
Type
Print
Medium
Soft ground etching and aquatint with scraping in black on cream laid paper
Size
Image/plate: 19.2 × 21.8 cm (7 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 32.1 cm (9 3/8 × 12 11/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Interiors
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Albert H. Wolf Memorial 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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