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Study for "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"

Study for "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"

James McNeill Whistler · 1872–73

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Palette

Soot
38% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Dark olive
30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1

Bistre
13% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.0:1

Coffee
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.6:1

Walnut
7% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.3:1

Sepia
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872–73
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 28.6 × 21 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 19, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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