The Yellow Room

James McNeill Whistler · ca. 1883–84

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Palette

Slate
44% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1

Tan
34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

Sepia
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Straw
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1

Mushroom
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Graphite
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1

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: James McNeill Whistler
American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
Date: ca. 1883–84
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Size: 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
Place: American
Period: 19th century
Themes: Interiors
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 48, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2017. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules