A work made of watercolor, with black colored pencil, and touches of pen and black ink, over a transfer drawing in black, and wood-block print in black ink with blue watercolor on cream wove paper.

Caricatures of Gauguin and Governor Gallet, with headpiece from Le sourire

Paul Gauguin · 1900

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Palette

Biscuit
40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1

Ash
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

Chalk
19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.6:1

Sepia
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

Terracotta
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Burnt orange
1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.0:1

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: 1900
Type: Print
Medium: Watercolor, with black colored pencil, and touches of pen and black ink, over a transfer drawing in black, and wood-block print in black ink with blue watercolor on cream wove paper
Size: Sheet: 29.8 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.); Headpiece: 9.8 × 16.4 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Caricatures of Gauguin and Governor Gallet, with headpiece from Le sourire

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