A work made of charcoal, with black chalk, stumping, and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on brown laid paper with blue fibers.

Old Woman

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1882

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Palette

Tan
44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Sepia
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1

Raw umber
18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

Bistre
13% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.7:1

Fawn
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

Parchment
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

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: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Date: 1882
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Charcoal, with black chalk, stumping, and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on brown laid paper with blue fibers
Size: 50.8 × 36.6 cm (20 × 14 7/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 42, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial 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