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A work made of red chalk and graphite on buff laid paper.

Study for The Feast of Love

Jean-Antoine Watteau · c. 1717

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Palette

Putty
 86% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Slate
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Caramel
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Jean-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684-1721
Date
c. 1717
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk and graphite on buff laid paper
Size
19.6 × 26.5 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection; Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Wirt D. Walker fund endowments. 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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