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Painting of black and tan cattle lying on short, green grass with a cloudy mountain top view behind them.

Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps

Rosa Bonheur · 1885

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Palette

Sepia
 47% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Silver
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1
Ash
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Bistre
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.1:1
Lavender grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Caramel
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Rosa Bonheur
Date
1885
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
54.9 × 66.4 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 87.2 × 8.3 cm (30 1/4 × 34 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains
Main colour
Brown · lightness 51, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger 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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