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Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir")

A work made of pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir")

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1877/78

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Palette

Pale stone
47% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.9:1

Biscuit
22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

Fawn
18% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1

Bone white
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.2:1

Tan
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

Bronze
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1

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: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919
Date: 1877/78
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Size: 27.5 × 39.9 cm (10 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Cities and streets
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, The Regenstein Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules