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Mrs. William Carmichael

John Hesselius · 1764–78

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Palette

Lamp black
 61% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.2:1
Dark olive
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.0:1
Green earth
 11% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1
Spruce
 6% of the image
Teal · text contrast 7.1:1
Lichen
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.3:1
Turquoise
 4% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.7:1

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
John Hesselius
Formerly attributed to Jeremiah Theus (American, born Switzerland, 1716–1774)
Date
1764–78
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
68 × 53.3 cm (26 3/4 × 21 in.)
Place
United States
Period
18th century
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Goodman Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-02); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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