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George Washington by Gilbert Stuart

George Washington

Gilbert Stuart · begun 1795

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Palette

Lamp black
 61% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Olive brown
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Bistre
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Mushroom
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.5:1
Pearl grey
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Gilbert Stuart
American, North Kingston, Rhode Island 1755–1828 Boston, Massachusetts
Date
begun 1795
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
Place
American
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 21, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1907. 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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