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Painting of woman, arms crossed on brown desk, staring at goldfish.

Woman before an Aquarium

Henri Matisse · 1921–23

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Palette

Blue-grey
 32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1
Taupe
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Coffee
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.8:1
Sepia
 17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Ash
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Mint
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Date
1921–23
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81.2 × 100.2 cm (31 15/16 × 39 7/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
20th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett 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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