Self-portrait

John Singleton Copley · 1769

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Palette

Silver
82% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Charcoal
6% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1

Ash
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

Blue-grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Prussian blue
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1

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 Singleton Copley
American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London
Date: 1769
Type: Painting
Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Size: 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (3.3 x 2.7 cm)
Place: American
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour: Grey · lightness 69, colourfulness 3

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, Anonymous Gift, and Virginia Marvin Stoughton Bequest, 2006. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules