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A work made of red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on white laid paper.

Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners

Jean-Antoine Watteau · n.d.

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Palette

Putty
 51% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.3:1
Pale stone
 25% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.9:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1
Mushroom
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Tan
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Jean-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684-1721
Date
n.d.
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on white laid paper
Size
15.7 × 21.6 cm (6 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
18th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 66, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Margaret Day Blake. 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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