Caricature of Auguste Vacquerie
Claude Monet · c. 1859
Palette
Sand
Tan
Taupe
Raw umber
Coffee
Sepia
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
- Claude Monet
after Nadar (French, 1820–1910) - Date
- c. 1859
- Type
- Drawing & watercolour
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper
- Size
- 28.4 × 17.6 cm (11 3/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Place
- France
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 28
Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison 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.
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