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A work made of oil on paperboard.

Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

Eugène Delacroix · 1849–50

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Palette

Bistre
 81% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1
Lamp black
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.3:1
Umber
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1
Chestnut
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.2:1
Spruce
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Eugène Delacroix
Date
1849–50
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on paperboard
Size
46 × 38 cm (18 1/8 × 15 in.); Framed: 64 × 55 × 8.5 cm (25 1/4 × 21 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Romanticism · 19th century
Themes
Mountains · Horses
Main colour
Black · lightness 18, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer 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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