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The Manger

Gertrude Käsebier · 1899

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Palette

Iron
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Pale stone
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1
Putty
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Warm grey
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Linen
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Gertrude Käsebier
American, 1852–1934
Date
1899
Type
Photograph
Medium
Platinum print
Size
Image/paper: 33.7 × 24.6 cm (13 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Pictorialism · 19th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mina Turner. 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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