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A work made of black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite.

Jean René Gauguin

Paul Gauguin · 1881

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Palette

Caramel
 34% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Apricot
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1
Biscuit
 24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.7:1
Chalk
 14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.6:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1
Linen
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

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
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date
1881
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite
Size
11.9 × 12.2 cm (4 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 70, colourfulness 30

Art Institute of Chicago, H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment. 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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