Portrait of a Lady

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · 1870–79

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Palette

Dark chocolate
77% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1

Umber
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.4:1

Tan
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1

Caramel
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1

Cinnamon
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Raw umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1

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: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Date: 1870–79
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 130.6 × 97.5 cm (51 3/8 × 38 3/8 in.); Framed: 162 × 129 × 14 cm (63 3/4 × 50 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Interiors
Main colour: Black · lightness 16, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger 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