A work made of watercolor and graphite on irregularly shaped cream wove japanese paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with brown and blue fibers, laid down on cream wove paper.

Seated Tahitian Youth

Paul Gauguin · 1894/1903

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Palette

Parchment
69% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.6:1

Chalk
11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.4:1

Bronze
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Raw umber
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

Sepia
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1

Tan
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

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: Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date: 1894/1903
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on irregularly shaped cream wove Japanese paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with brown and blue fibers, laid down on cream wove paper
Size: 237 × 157 mm (primary support); 352 × 227 (secondary support); 451 × 312 (tertiary support)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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

Seated Tahitian Youth

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