A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark gray ink on ivory laid paper.

Annie, Seated

James McNeill Whistler · 1858/59

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Palette

Bone white
53% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.7:1

Oyster
34% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.5:1

Pale stone
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1

Putty
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date: 1858/59
Type: Print
Medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark gray ink on ivory laid paper
Size: Plate: 13 × 9.7 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 18.5 × 14.9 cm (7 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 88, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection. 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

Annie, Seated

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