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Portrait of a Woman

John Wollaston · 1749–52

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Palette

Dark olive
 37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Soot
 35% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Slate
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Silver
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.5:1
Blue-grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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 Wollaston
Date
1749–52
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
132.6 × 107.2 cm (52 3/16 × 42 3/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Goodman Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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