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Dark portrait of an older light-skinned women with dark hair in a black dress and white collar, her hair pinned up. Her face is in partial shadow.

Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

Thomas Eakins · 1899

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 89% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.3:1
Tan
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1
Umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Thomas Eakins
Date
1899
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 1/16 in.)
Place
Philadelphia
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art 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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