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Portrait of a Young Man in Uniform by Unknown artist

Portrait of a Young Man in Uniform

Unknown artist · 1790s

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Palette

Smoke
 53% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Warm grey
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Slate blue
 15% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.9:1
Mushroom
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.9:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Dusty rose
 2% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.4:1

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
Unknown artist
Date
1790s
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
pastel on blue laid paper
Size
overall: 41.6 x 31.3 cm (16 3/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Period
18th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 46, colourfulness 8

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Arthur L. Liebman. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Anonymous work, made by 1799: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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