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A work made of oil on canvas.

Meditation (Seated Woman)

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli · c. 1878–79

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Palette

Walnut
 29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.6:1
Olive brown
 29% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.2:1
Umber
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Dark ochre
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Cinnamon
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Ochre
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

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
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli
Date
c. 1878–79
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
52.4 × 40.4 cm (20 5/8 × 15 7/8 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 64.4 × 7.7 cm (30 × 25 3/8 × 3 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 31, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham. 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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