A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone.

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Odilon Redon · 1878

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Tan
51% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1

Charcoal
16% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.8:1

Sepia
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1

Raw umber
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Caramel
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

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

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Artist: Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date: 1878
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
Size: 46.6 × 37.6 cm (18 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 46, colourfulness 26

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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