A work made of pastel, with touches of black conté crayon, over various charcoals, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone.

Sita

Odilon Redon · c. 1893

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Palette

Sepia
39% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Indigo
35% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.3:1

Green earth
10% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1

Prussian blue
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1

Linen
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1

Putty
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1

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: Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date: c. 1893
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Pastel, with touches of black Conté crayon, over various charcoals, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
Size: 53.6 × 37.7 cm (21 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Night and moonlight · Myths and legends · Bible stories and saints
Main colour: Brown · lightness 35, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham 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