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A work made of black conté crayon, black chalk, and charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper.

Academic Male Nude

Georges Seurat · 1877

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Palette

Ivory
 76% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.9:1
Chalk
 12% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.6:1
Putty
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1
Graphite
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Georges Seurat
French, 1859–1891
Date
1877
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black Conté crayon, black chalk, and charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper
Size
63.6 × 48.5 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 86, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray. 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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