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A work made of black charcoal with touches of brown charcoal, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream.

Tree

Odilon Redon · c. 1875

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Palette

Dark chocolate
 25% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Caramel
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1
Umber
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Bistre
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.1:1
Raw umber
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Dark ochre
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1

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. 1875
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Black charcoal with touches of brown charcoal, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream
Size
49.3 × 38.2 cm (19 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Brown · lightness 27, colourfulness 23

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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