Painting of a scene in a dimly-lit, cavernous room with a bassinet and small table. A shaft of light falls on four figures: a light-skinned woman in a white head covering, a baby on her lap, a male figure at her side, and a small dog at their feet. The couple feeds the fussing baby from a bowl, smiling.

A Mother Feeding her Child (The Happy Mother)

Willem van Mieris · 1707

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Dark chocolate
52% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.4:1

Bistre
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.0:1

Lamp black
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.9:1

Umber
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1

Taupe
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Bronze
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

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

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Artist: Willem van Mieris
Date: 1707
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 56.9 × 48.4 cm (22 3/8 × 19 1/16 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 74.6 × 6.4 cm (32 3/4 × 29 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: Holland
Period: 18th century
Themes: Dogs · Interiors · Mothers and children
Main colour: Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edson Keith. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

A Mother Feeding her Child (The Happy Mother)

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