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A work made of etching, with selective wiping of plate tone, in black on off-white wove paper.

The Music Room

James McNeill Whistler · 1859

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Palette

Bone white
 57% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Soot
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1
Sepia
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Bistre
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1

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
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903
Date
1859
Type
Print
Medium
Etching, with selective wiping of plate tone, in black on off-white wove paper
Size
Image/plate: 14.4 × 21.4 cm (5 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.4 × 33.6 cm (8 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Interiors · Music and dance
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 66, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Bryan Lathrop. 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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