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A work made of charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. ruled in pale red-orange pastel. offset impression of tadpole, verso..

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

Odilon Redon · 1883

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Palette

Sepia
 45% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Bronze
 23% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Tan
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Bistre
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Linen
 1% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1

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
1883
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. Ruled in pale red-orange pastel. Offset impression of Tadpole, verso.
Size
50.5 × 37.2 cm (19 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 39, colourfulness 21

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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