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A work made of black chalk (recto) and red chalk (verso) on ivory wove paper.

The Wool Carder (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of Man Standing by Fence (verso)

Jean-François Millet · 1857/58

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Palette

Linen
 57% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.7:1
Pale stone
 26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.8:1
Oyster
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.8:1
Stone
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Chalk
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.3:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1

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-François Millet
French, 1814-1875
Date
1857/58
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black chalk (recto) and red chalk (verso) on ivory wove paper
Size
25.9 × 17.7 cm (10 1/4 × 7 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 83, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.. 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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