Tight-Rope Walker

Jean-Louis Forain · c. 1885

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Ink
77% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.6:1

Bistre
12% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.6:1

Graphite
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Sepia
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

Chestnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.6:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1

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

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Artist: Jean-Louis Forain
Date: c. 1885
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 46.2 × 38.2 cm (18 1/8 × 15 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 49.6 × 7.7 cm (22 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 3 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Night and moonlight · Cities and streets · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 12, colourfulness 3

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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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