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A work made of color brush and spatter lithograph (poster) on tan wove paper with lettering by another hand.

The Simpson Chain

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1896

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Palette

Biscuit
 51% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.4:1
Prussian blue
 17% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.4:1
Fawn
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Sunflower
 10% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 10.4:1
Coral
 7% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.3:1
Pale gold
 4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.2:1

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
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Date
1896
Type
Print
Medium
Color brush and spatter lithograph (poster) on tan wove paper with lettering by another hand
Size
Image: 81.5 × 119 cm (32 1/8 × 46 7/8 in.); Sheet, sight: 85.2 × 123 cm (33 9/16 × 48 7/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 35

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Gecht Family. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1901: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1972. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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