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A boldly painted orange tiger lies on brown, rocky ground, his body nearly filling the canvas, blue water and gray sky in the background.

Tiger Resting

Pierre Andrieu · c. 1845

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Palette

Bronze
 37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Umber
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.2:1
Warm grey
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Dark ochre
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Dark chocolate
 7% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1
Putty
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.4:1

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
Pierre Andrieu
Date
c. 1845
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
20.3 × 38.1 cm (8 × 15 in.); Framed: 45.1 × 62.9 × 8.3 cm (17 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Brown · lightness 43, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Henry Field Memorial 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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