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Landscape with a Castle

A work made of red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card.

Landscape with a Castle

Jean-Antoine Watteau · 1716/18

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Palette

Putty
44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1

Fawn
34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.4:1

Pale stone
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1

Tan
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Khaki
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1

Sand
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

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: Jean-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684-1721
Date: 1716/18
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Size: 22.4 × 33.8 cm (8 7/8 × 13 5/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 18th century
Themes: Landscapes
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. 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