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A young girl with medium skin wears a striking dress of black and white stripes with a short lace collar. Behind her is backdrop featuring symbols and native figures. Mangos sit beside her.

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)

Paul Gauguin · 1893

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Palette

Raw umber
 57% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Prussian blue
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.9:1
Ash
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Dark ochre
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Fawn
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Burnt sienna
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 7.6:1

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
Paul Gauguin
Date
1893
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on jute canvas
Size
75 × 53 cm (29 1/2 × 20 7/8 in.); Framed: 98.8 × 76.6 × 8.3 cm (38 7/8 × 30 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Flowers · Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 44, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deering McCormick. 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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