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Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Pastel drawing of a seated woman wearing a brown dress, holding and kissing her young child, who is dressed in blue and sucking her fingers.

Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Mary Cassatt · 1888

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Palette

Sepia
46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Warm grey
22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Smoke
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

Prussian blue
12% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.0:1

Dark ochre
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Bronze
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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: Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Date: 1888
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pastel on blue-gray wove paper (faded to tan), mounted on canvas, on a strainer
Size: 84 × 73.8 cm (33 1/8 × 29 1/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Mothers and children
Main colour: Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer. 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