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A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.

Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau)

Gustave Courbet · 1862

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Palette

Soot
 53% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.4:1
Raw umber
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Smoke
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Iron
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1
Walnut
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

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
Gustave Courbet
Date
1862
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Size
63.5 × 77 cm (25 × 30 5/16 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 112.4 cm (38 3/4 × 44 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits · Landscapes
Main colour
Brown · lightness 26, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Joseph Winterbotham 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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