The pseudocolors of the infrared reveal that the female figure's skirt may contain a color mixture of cobalt blue, ultramarine, indigo and cerulean blue, while also eliminating the possible use of azurite, manganese blue, and Prussian blue. It also helped estimate that the tobacco leaves were painted using a color mixture containing yellow ocher, raw sienna, or other earthen pigment.

The pseudocolor of the infrared differentiates and "maps" the color mixtures used.

Using the pseudocolor infrared image as reference, and taking into account the relatively simple color forms and the light layering, conclusions can be drawn about the composition of the materials used. The blue pigments used could be indigo, phthalocyanine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, or ultramarine, but most likely indigo was used. If green pigment has been used, it most probably contains chromium (e.g.. viridian, oxide of chromium, etc.). Earthen colors are not very likely to have been used extensively, except perhaps baked umbra. For peach tones, it is considered likely that orange or red pigments were mixed with white. The use of yellow pigments is not likely.