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Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy

John Singer Sargent · 1907

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Palette

Sepia
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.8:1
Taupe
 26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Silver
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Green earth
 5% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.9:1
Pewter
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Bronze
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

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
John Singer Sargent
Date
1907
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
71.4 × 56.5 cm (28 1/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
Place
Frascati
Period
Impressionism · Early Modernism · 20th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art 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

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