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Young Woman with a Water Pitcher by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

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Palette

Sepia
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Taupe
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Ink
 25% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.2:1
Slate
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft
Date
ca. 1662
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
Period
17th century
Themes
Interiors
Main colour
Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889. 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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