A white severed calf's head is suspended from a hook in its nose at right, painted with blue undertones and pink and yellow highlights. At left is a severed ox tongue and mouth rendered in soft white, pinks, and reds, all against a blue-gray background.

Calf's Head and Ox Tongue

Gustave Caillebotte · c. 1882

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Palette

Warm grey
49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Smoke
30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Chestnut
8% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

Pale stone
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.5:1

Taupe
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Walnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

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: Gustave Caillebotte
Date: c. 1882
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 73 × 54 cm (29 × 21 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 69.3 × 7.7 cm (34 1/2 × 27 1/4 × 3 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Still life
Main colour: Grey · lightness 53, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment. 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

Calf's Head and Ox Tongue

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