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A work made of oil on canvas.

Woman and Child at the Well

Camille Pissarro · 1882

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Palette

Warm grey
 39% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1
Green earth
 30% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1
Slate
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Lichen
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.9:1
Blue-grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Silver
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1

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
Camille Pissarro
Date
1882
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
81.5 × 66.4 cm (32 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 81.6 × 6.1 cm (38 3/4 × 32 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 53, colourfulness 14

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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