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Marie Antoinette in a Park by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Marie Antoinette in a Park

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · ca. 1780–81

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Palette

Ash
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1
Silver
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1
Pewter
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Smoke
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Pearl grey
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.9:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

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
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris
Date
ca. 1780–81
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk, stumped, and white chalk; framing lines in black chalk
Size
Sheet: 23 3/16 × 15 7/8 in. (58.9 × 40.4 cm)
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. 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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