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A work made of black fabricated chalk on ivory laid paper.

Bust of a Young Breton Woman (Possibly Marie Lagadu)

Paul Gauguin · 1886/88

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Palette

Oyster
 60% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Pale stone
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Chalk
 9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1
Silver
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.1:1
Warm grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Bone white
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.4:1

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
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date
1886/88
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black fabricated chalk on ivory laid paper
Size
30.3 × 31.3 cm (11 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Heun Fund. 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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