Osage Warrior

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1805–7

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Linen
75% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

Peach
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.4:1

Putty
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

Warm grey
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Tan
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

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: Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1770–1852
Date: 1805–7
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Size: 7 1/4 x 6 7/16 in. (18.4 x 16.4 cm)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 83, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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