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A work made of oil on cardboard.

Woman's Head

Paul-Albert Besnard · c. 1890

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Palette

Caramel
 32% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Walnut
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Raw umber
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Pewter
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Cinnamon
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.4:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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
Paul-Albert Besnard
Date
c. 1890
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Size
60.8 × 49.1 cm (19 1/4 × 24 in.); Framed: 75 × 63.5 × 7.7 cm (29 1/2 × 25 × 3 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits · Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 22

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

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