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A work made of etching and burnished aquatint and/or lavis on ivory paper.

Old man on a swing

Francisco Goya · 1825/27

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Palette

Chalk
50% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.8:1
Taupe
21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Warm grey
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Mushroom
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Pale stone
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Bone white
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1

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
Francisco Goya
Spanish, 1746-1828
Date
1825/27
Type
Print
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. Licence rules

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