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A work made of oil on canvas.

Mother and Child

Gari Melchers · c. 1906

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Palette

Lamp black
 57% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.3:1
Coffee
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1
Sepia
 11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1
Raw umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1

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
Gari Melchers
Date
c. 1906
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
63.5 × 54.3 cm (25 × 21 3/8 in.)
Place
Netherlands
Period
Realism · 20th century
Themes
Portraits · Mothers and children
Main colour
Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of James Deering. 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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