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A work made of oil on canvas.

In the Wings

Jean-Louis Forain · 1899

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Palette

Bistre
 34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1
Lamp black
 29% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Coffee
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.7:1
Raw umber
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Bronze
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

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-Louis Forain
Date
1899
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
60.5 × 73.8 cm (23 3/16 × 29 1/16 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 95.6 × 11.5 cm (32 1/2 × 37 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Music and dance
Main colour
Brown · lightness 24, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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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