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A work made of red chalk on cream laid paper.

Two Studies of a Dancer, Raising Her Skirt in Her Two Hands

Jean-Antoine Watteau · 1712/13

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Palette

Linen
 66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.4:1
Putty
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.3:1
Fawn
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.5:1
Tan
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Salmon
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

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
1712/13
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk on cream laid paper
Size
17.6 × 13.3 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 81, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Collection 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

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