Bacchus
John Singer Sargent · 1874-1880
Palette
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
- John Singer Sargent
1856–1925 - Date
- 1874-1880
- Type
- Drawing & watercolour
- Medium
- pastel over graphite with metallic paint on wove paper mounted to paperboard
- Size
- overall (two sheets): 63.82 × 42.86 cm (25 1/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
- Place
- American
- Period
- 19th century
- Themes
- Myths and legends
- Main colour
- Brown · lightness 50, colourfulness 20
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949). Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1925: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1996. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules
