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A work made of pastel, with graphite, stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper.

The Artist's Mother Playing Checkers

Édouard Jean Vuillard · c. 1890–91

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Palette

Pale stone
 47% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1
Raw umber
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Soot
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.0:1
Burnt orange
 6% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.4:1
Cinnamon
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1
Rust
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

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
Édouard Jean Vuillard
French, 1868-1940
Date
c. 1890–91
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Pastel, with graphite, stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper
Size
Max: 37.5 × 30.5 cm (14 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 55, colourfulness 19

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mary and Leigh Block. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1940: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2011. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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