A pensive faced woman sits, slightly hunched, holding a book.

Interrupted Reading

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · c. 1870

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Palette

Sepia
40% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1

Fawn
30% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Walnut
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.9:1

Putty
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1

Soot
4% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.6:1

Coffee
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1

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: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Date: c. 1870
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on board
Size: 92.5 × 65.1 cm (36 5/16 × 25 5/8 in.); Framed: 130.9 × 104.2 × 14 cm (51 1/2 × 41 × 5 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Interiors · Reading and letters
Main colour: Brown · lightness 45, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer 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