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A work made of charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red/pink and blue fibers, discolored to buff.

Head Wearing a Phrygian Cap, on a Salver

Odilon Redon · 1881

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Palette

Iron
 78% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Chalk
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.7:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Biscuit
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1
Silver
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1

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
1881
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red/pink and blue fibers, discolored to buff
Size
48.4 × 36.3 cm (19 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 39, colourfulness 8

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

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