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A work made of various charcoals, with stumping, incising, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone.

Profile of Shadow

Odilon Redon · c. 1895

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Palette

Graphite
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.3:1
Taupe
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Khaki
 23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Sand
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Chalk
 2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 17.3:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1

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
Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date
c. 1895
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Various charcoals, with stumping, incising, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
Size
47.1 × 35.4 cm (18 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 49, colourfulness 14

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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