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Woman with a Parrot

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

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Palette

Lamp black
62% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.7:1

Dark chocolate
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1

Khaki
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Sepia
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.8:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

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: Gustave Courbet
French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz
Date: 1866
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 51 x 77 in. (129.5 x 195.6 cm)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Birds
Main colour: Black · lightness 14, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules