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A work made of graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso).

Mercury (after Pigalle)

Paul Cézanne · 1885/1895

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Palette

Peach
 64% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.1:1
Shell pink
 20% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Putty
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.8:1
Linen
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Mushroom
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.5:1

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 Cézanne
French, 1839-1906
Date
1885/1895
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso)
Size
Max: 48.5 × 31.4 cm (19 1/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Myths and legends
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 80, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake 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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