A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone.

The Sphinx

Odilon Redon · 1883

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Palette

Iron
73% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1

Taupe
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Tan
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Bone white
5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.4:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

Pale stone
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1

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: 1883
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
Size: 52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, David Adler 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

The Sphinx

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