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Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean) by Georges Seurat

Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

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Palette

Charcoal
 47% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.5:1
Iron
 29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1
Smoke
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Chalk
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Silver
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1

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
Georges Seurat
French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris
Date
1882–83
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Conté crayon on Michallet paper
Size
24 1/2 × 18 11/16 in. (62.2 × 47.5 cm)
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 30, colourfulness 3

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960. 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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