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A work made of graphite and red chalk, with touches of black crayon, heightened with traces of white chalk, on ivory wove paper.

Mademoiselle Cocyle as Helen of Troy in La Belle Helene

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1900

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Palette

Parchment
 66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.3:1
Ivory
 22% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Biscuit
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.2:1
Sand
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.4:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.3:1
Putty
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1

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
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Date
1900
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite and red chalk, with touches of black crayon, heightened with traces of white chalk, on ivory wove paper
Size
35.1 × 25.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 83, colourfulness 19

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

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