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Large painting of young woman in white dress sitting next to crib.

Madame de Pastoret and Her Son

Jacques-Louis David · 1791–92

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Palette

Mushroom
 60% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.6:1
Pale stone
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Cinnamon
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1
Caramel
 3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.4:1
Walnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1

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
Jacques-Louis David
Date
1791–92
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
129.8 × 96.6 cm (51 1/8 × 38 in.); French: 156.3 × 123.6 cm (61 1/2 × 48 5/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors · Mothers and children
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Clyde M. Carr Fund and Major Acquisitions Endowment. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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