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Madame François Buron

Jacques-Louis David · 1769

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 41% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1
Chestnut
 17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Silver
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Iron
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Dusty rose
 6% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Jacques-Louis David
Date
1769
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
66.3 × 55.5 cm (26 1/8 × 21 7/8 in.); Framed: 92.4 × 81.6 × 10.2 cm (36 3/8 × 32 1/8 × 4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Neoclassicism · 18th century
Themes
Portraits · Reading and letters
Main colour
Black · lightness 33, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of her mother, Abby Louise Spencer (Mrs. Augustus Eddy).. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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