A work made of pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard.

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Odilon Redon · 1883, reworked c. 1893

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Palette

Navy
37% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.0:1

Prussian blue
18% of the image
Blue · text contrast 12.9:1

Taupe
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

Raw umber
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

Graphite
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

Sepia
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1

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

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Artist: Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date: 1883, reworked c. 1893
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard
Size: 51.5 × 37.2 cm (20 5/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Blue · lightness 30, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Theodora W. Brown and Mrs. Rue W. Shaw in memory of Anne R. Winterbotham. 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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