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A work made of red chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper.

Tobit Burying the Dead or Funeral of Phocian

Jean-Antoine Watteau · c. 1710-1750

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Palette

Putty
 70% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1
Fawn
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1
Raw umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Mushroom
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Oyster
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1

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

Details

Artist
Jean-Antoine Watteau
After Andrea di Lione (Italian, 1610–1685) or Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609-1664)
Date
c. 1710-1750
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper
Size
29.9 × 16.8 cm (11 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial 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

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