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Peasant Mother and Child

A work made of color drypoint and aquatint, with additions in yellow, on white laid paper.

Peasant Mother and Child

Mary Cassatt · c. 1894

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Palette

Smoke
46% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1

Linen
45% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.8:1

Khaki
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Putty
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1

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: Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Date: c. 1894
Type: Print
Medium: Color drypoint and aquatint, with additions in yellow, on white laid paper
Size: Image/plate: 29.7 × 24 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 28 cm (17 9/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Mothers and children · Work and rural life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 63, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Alfred E. Hamill. 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