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Two men on horseback clash in battle, another man crouches with knife.

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

Eugène Delacroix · 1826

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Palette

Charcoal
 46% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.2:1
Sepia
 22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Smoke
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1
Fawn
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Walnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1

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
Eugène Delacroix
Date
1826
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
59.6 × 73.4 cm (23 1/2 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 87.4 × 101.3 cm (34 3/8 × 39 7/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Romanticism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains · Horses
Main colour
Black · lightness 31, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Palmer. 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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