A work made of etching and drypoint with plate tone on heavy cream wove paper.

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Odilon Redon · 1892

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Taupe
49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Mushroom
23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1

Charcoal
9% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.5:1

Putty
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Iron
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

Oyster
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.1:1

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: Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date: 1892
Type: Print
Medium: Etching and drypoint with plate tone on heavy cream wove paper
Size: Image: 19.3 × 14.2 cm (7 5/8 × 5 5/8 in.); Plate: 20 × 15 cm (7 7/8 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 30.2 cm (14 × 11 15/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 54, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, The Stickney 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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