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At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)

At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1888

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Palette

Taupe
34% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.7:1

Pewter
34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Iron
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

Fawn
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Chestnut
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1

Sienna
1% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.9:1

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: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Date: 1888
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on vellum
Size: Diam.: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Horses · Music and dance
Main colour: Brown · lightness 47, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Patterson/Taylor Acquisition Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Patterson Endowment Fund. 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