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Chalk drawing with red and black shading of man carrying crate and pack.

The Old Savoyard

Jean-Antoine Watteau · c. 1715

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Palette

Putty
 44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1
Fawn
 26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Tan
 10% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.6:1
Taupe
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1
Ash
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · 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
c. 1715
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red and black chalk on cream laid paper
Size
35.9 × 22.1 cm (14 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein 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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