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Painting · 1871

Whistler's Mother

James McNeill Whistler · Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Palette

• Black #1D1C13 · 28% · your word: Black
• Nickel #7C7A6A · 27% · your word: Taupe
• Black olive #3B3A30 · 27% · your word: Gunmetal
• Antique bronze #575235 · 12% · your word: Umber
• Silver #C1BBB1 · 4% · your word: Silver
• Camel #9F8B61 · 1% · your word: Camel

Its real title is Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1. Whistler named his pictures like music, to keep sentiment out of art, and the palette obeys: black, greys and a pale wall, with warm color only in the face and hands. The paint is thin and oily, low in pigment. It was varnished in 1878 for his libel case against Ruskin, and the French state bought it in 1891.

Image

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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