Madame X color palette
John Singer Sargent, 1883–84. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Umber#4D4233RGB 77, 66, 5153%
- Jet#0F0F10RGB 15, 15, 1625%
- Espresso#43261CRGB 67, 38, 2817%
- Oat#BCAC9CRGB 188, 172, 1563%
- Taupe#8F887ERGB 143, 136, 1262%
- Clay#A77163RGB 167, 113, 991%
Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Umber rules this painting: it covers 53%, more than all the other colors together.
Clay is the accent: only 1% of the painting, but enough to lift the rest.
Light and dark are far apart: from oat at value 7 down to jet at 0, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Most of it is near-neutral (83% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the painting in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
