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A work made of oil on canvas.

Descent of Cattle from the Pyrenees

Emile van Marcke · c. 1880

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Palette

Smoke
 30% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Silver
 25% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1
Ash
 23% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Graphite
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.3:1
Lamp black
 6% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Chalk
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.9:1

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
Emile van Marcke
Date
c. 1880
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
99.2 × 66.1 cm (39 × 26 in.); Framed: 94.9 × 127.9 × 11.5 cm (37 3/8 × 50 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Mountains · Dogs
Main colour
Grey · lightness 53, colourfulness 0

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball 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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