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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques-Louis David · 1788

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Palette

Graphite
45% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1

Taupe
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Coffee
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.1:1

Garnet
11% of the image
Red · text contrast 11.8:1

Lamp black
11% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.2:1

Stone
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

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: Jacques-Louis David
French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
Date: 1788
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 102 1/4 x 76 5/8 in. (259.7 x 194.6 cm)
Period: 18th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Black · lightness 24, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy, 1977. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules