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A work made of oil on canvas.

On Guard

Ernest Hébert · 1860–70

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Palette

Ink
 50% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1
Charcoal
 19% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1
Graphite
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Slate
 9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Pewter
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1
Ash
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1

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
Ernest Hébert
Date
1860–70
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
47.6 × 36.5 cm (18 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.); Framed: 55.3 × 43.2 × 6.4 cm (21 3/4 × 17 × 2 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Mountains
Main colour
Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 0

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

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