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Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

Jean-François Millet · 1864

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Palette

Bistre
47% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1

Raw umber
25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Fawn
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

Umber
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Caramel
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Tan
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

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

Details

Artist: Jean-François Millet
Date: 1864
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81.1 × 100 cm (31 15/16 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 120.1 × 138.5 × 19.1 cm (47 1/4 × 54 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Barbizon School · 19th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 36, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Henry Field Memorial 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