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Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

Very dark painting of a light-skinned, mostly clean-shaven young man in dark suit and dark full-length coat, holding a rolled-up paper and gloves.

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

James McNeill Whistler · 1894

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Palette

Soot
40% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1

Charcoal
18% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1

Bistre
12% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.5:1

Lamp black
12% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1

Coffee
10% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1

Sepia
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 210.7 × 93.3 cm (82 15/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
Place: Paris
Period: Post-Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 17, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial 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