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Woman and Child (Silence)

Auguste Boulard, the Elder · 1855/60

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 64% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.5:1
Bistre
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.5:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Umber
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1

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
Auguste Boulard, the Elder
Date
1855/60
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
45.5 × 38.3 cm (18 × 15 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.5 × 56.2 × 8.3 cm (25 × 22 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Night and moonlight · Interiors · Mothers and children
Main colour
Black · lightness 14, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland. 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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