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Mère Grégoire

Dark portrait of older woman in black dress with lace collar, flowers.

Mère Grégoire

Gustave Courbet · 1855, reworked 1857–59

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Palette

Bistre
67% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.4:1

Lamp black
16% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.7:1

Mahogany
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.0:1

Sepia
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.5:1

Raw umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Mushroom
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

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: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1855, reworked 1857–59
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 129 × 97.5 cm (50 3/4 × 38 3/8 in.); Framed: 168 × 137.2 × 16.2 cm (66 1/8 × 54 × 6 3/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Flowers
Main colour: Brown · lightness 17, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead Fund. 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