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A work made of black conté crayon on ivory laid paper.

Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges Seurat · 1884

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Palette

Parchment
 69% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.3:1
Putty
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.2:1
Fawn
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1
Taupe
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Stone
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

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
Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891
Date
1884
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper
Size
47.4 × 61.5 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 80, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection. 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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