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A work made of oil on academy board.

Woman in a Blue Dress

School of William Matthew Prior · c. 1840

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Palette

Sepia
 35% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Peacock
 27% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.9:1
Mushroom
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Coffee
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.1:1
Prussian blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.7:1
Ink
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1

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
School of William Matthew Prior
American, 1806–1873
Date
c. 1840
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on academy board
Size
34.9 × 25.1 cm (13 3/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 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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