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A work made of oil on canvas.

Peasants and Horses

Adolf Schreyer · c. 1860

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Palette

Soot
 22% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.9:1
Ash
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1
Iron
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1
Pewter
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Slate
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Silver
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

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
Adolf Schreyer
Date
c. 1860
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
32 × 52.2 cm (12 5/8 × 20 1/2 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
19th century
Themes
Horses · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 41, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Irwin Family in memory of David Wickham Irwin. 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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