Lion Hunt

Eugène Delacroix · 1860–61

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Palette

Bistre
33% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1

Umber
29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1

Sepia
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1

Bronze
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

Green earth
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Pewter
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1

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: 1860–61
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 76.5 × 98.5 cm (30 × 38 1/2 in.); Framed: 105.5 × 125.8 cm (41 1/2 × 49 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Romanticism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Mountains · Horses
Main colour: Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 16

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