A work made of black and brown conté crayon, with pen and black ink and traces of black pastel, over gray washes, on cream wove paper, edge-mounted on laminated woodpulp board.

The Flight Into Egypt

Jean-François Millet · c. 1864

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Palette

Soot
39% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Graphite
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1

Sepia
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1

Linen
10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

Taupe
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

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

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Artist: Jean-François Millet
French, 1814-1875
Date: c. 1864
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Black and brown Conté crayon, with pen and black ink and traces of black pastel, over gray washes, on cream wove paper, edge-mounted on laminated woodpulp board
Size: 31.7 × 40.7 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 32, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, The Regenstein 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

The Flight Into Egypt

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