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Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent · 1883–84

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Palette

Sepia
 42% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1
Lamp black
 32% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.2:1
Soot
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.3:1
Bistre
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.6:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Putty
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1

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
1883–84
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
82 1/8 × 43 1/4 in. (208.6 × 109.9 cm) Framed: 95 3/4 × 56 5/8 × 5 in. (243.2 × 143.8 × 12.7 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 18, colourfulness 6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916. 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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