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Painting of a placid-looking, light-skinned woman in a maroon dress, seated in a chair with yellow upholstery, hands folded.

Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair

Paul Cézanne · 1888–90

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Palette

Pewter
 42% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Sepia
 26% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1
Graphite
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1
Bronze
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Mushroom
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Pink · 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

Details

Artist
Paul Cézanne
Date
1888–90
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
80.9 × 64.9 cm (31 13/16 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 90.2 × 11.2 cm (42 × 35 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead Fund. 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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