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A work made of lithograph (crayon, brush and spatter with scraper) in green, yellow-orange, brown and black on cream wove paper.

Summer: Cat on a Balustrade

Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen · 1909

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Palette

Umber
 47% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Bronze
 19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Mustard
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Bone white
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.8:1
Saffron
 5% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.1:1
Biscuit
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

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

Details

Artist
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923
Date
1909
Type
Print
Medium
Lithograph (crayon, brush and spatter with scraper) in green, yellow-orange, brown and black on cream wove paper
Size
Image, including stray marks: 49.2 × 60.5 cm (19 3/8 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 62.7 cm (19 15/16 × 24 11/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
20th century
Themes
Cats
Main colour
Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Albert H. Wolf Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1923: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1994. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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