A young, smiling boy in a ruffled collar, hat, and cumberbun rides outdoors on a brown ram, a small whip held aloft in his hand.

Boy on a Ram

Francisco Goya · 1786–87

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Palette

Bistre
34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.8:1

Ash
32% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.5:1

Parchment
14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.6:1

Khaki
12% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

Cinnamon
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

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: Francisco Goya
Date: 1786–87
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 127.2 × 112.1 cm (50 1/16 × 44 1/8 in.); Framed: 153.7 × 138.4 × 12.7 cm (60 1/2 × 54 1/2 × 5 in.)
Place: Spain
Period: 18th century
Themes: Flowers
Main colour: Brown · lightness 48, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McCormick. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules