The Sheepshearers

Jean-François Millet · c. 1857–61

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Palette

Sepia
44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1

Bistre
27% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1

Taupe
22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1

Smoke
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.5:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

Fawn
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

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: Jean-François Millet
Date: c. 1857–61
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41.2 × 28.5 cm (16 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Framed: 54.6 × 40 cm (21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: Barbizon School · 19th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 13

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