Old man on a swing
Francisco Goya · 1825/27
Palette
Chalk
Taupe
Warm grey
Mushroom
Pale stone
Bone white
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
- Francisco Goya
Spanish, 1746-1828 - Date
- 1825/27
- Type
- Medium
- Etching and burnished aquatint and/or lavis on ivory paper
- Size
- Image: 16.3 × 10.5 cm (6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 18.8 × 12.2 cm (7 7/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Place
- Spain
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- White & cream · lightness 76, colourfulness 6
Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Deering Print Fund. Museum record.
Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0.
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