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In the Generalife by John Singer Sargent

In the Generalife

John Singer Sargent · 1912

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Palette

Graphite
 53% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Smoke
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Oyster
 11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Spruce
 3% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.7:1
Sage
 1% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.4:1

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
John Singer Sargent
American, Florence 1856–1925 London
Date
1912
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, wax crayon, and graphite on white wove paper
Size
14 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. (37.5 x 45.4 cm) Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm) Framed (standard exhibition frame): 24 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 1 1/8 in. (62.2 × 77.5 × 2.9 cm)
Place
American
Period
20th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 43, colourfulness 5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1915. 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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