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Self-Portrait

Egon Schiele · 1911

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Palette

Biscuit
 63% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Bone white
 18% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1
Apricot
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1
Terracotta
 2% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.4:1
Umber
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Egon Schiele
Austrian, Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna
Date
1911
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper
Size
20 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (51.4 x 34.9 cm)
Period
20th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 78, colourfulness 25

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982. 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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