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A work made of oil on canvas.

Elaine

Toby Edward Rosenthal · 1874

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Palette

Lamp black
 47% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1
Smoke
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Graphite
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Bistre
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.6:1
Olive brown
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.0:1
Putty
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1

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
Toby Edward Rosenthal
Date
1874
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
97.9 × 158.8 cm (38 9/16 × 62 1/2 in.)
Place
Munich
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Maurice Rosenfeld. 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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