Painting of a stately woman seated on a red velvet chair in a blood-red room, a blue-white fireplace to her left. She glances down at the floor with a serene expression toward a tiny blond child—a baby—who sits on the floor tearing up paper, her pink-clad back facing the viewer.

The Red Room, Etretat

Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1899

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Dark chocolate
55% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.4:1

Mahogany
27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.8:1

Carmine
9% of the image
Red · text contrast 9.9:1

Raw umber
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1

Dusty rose
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

Slate
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1

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

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Artist: Félix Edouard Vallotton
Date: 1899
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on artist's board
Size: 49.2 × 51.3 cm (19 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 65.4 × 6.4 cm (24 3/4 × 25 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place: Switzerland
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Flowers · Interiors · Mothers and children
Main colour: Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells. 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

The Red Room, Etretat

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