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Woman reading by Toyohara Kunichika

Woman reading

Dutch title: Lezende vrouw (English title translated by InspiredBy)

Toyohara Kunichika · 1845 - 1900

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Palette

Biscuit
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.9:1
Smoke
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Slate blue
 18% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.7:1
Madder
 15% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1
Chalk
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.5:1
Chestnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

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

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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
1835–1900
Date
1845 - 1900
Type
Print
Medium
color woodcut, paper
Size
height 352 mm x width 246 mm
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 21

Rijksmuseum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Dated 1900 or earlier: published before 1931 (Rijksmuseum: edmRights=http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; image: Public Domai). Europe: Artist died 1900: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1971. Last checked 2026-10-31 (rights statement is public domain: yes). Image released by the Rijksmuseum as public domain (CC0). Licence rules

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