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A work made of transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper.

Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)

Paul Gauguin · c. 1902

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Palette

Pale stone
 46% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Tan
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.4:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Ash
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Fawn
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1

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
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date
c. 1902
Type
Print
Medium
Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
Size
24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Mothers and children · Bible stories and saints
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton. 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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