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A work made of red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card.

A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile

Jean-Antoine Watteau · c. 1709

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Palette

Fawn
 57% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1
Caramel
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Tan
 13% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Oyster
 11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1
Mushroom
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

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-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684-1721
Date
c. 1709
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Size
20.1 × 13.4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 21

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

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