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A man sits on a brown horse at center wearing a soldier's uniform, red pants, and blue and gray jacket, with other soldiers in the background. The ground appears wet, the sky vast and gray. A weapon hangs from his side.

A Mounted Officer

Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille · 1877

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Palette

Silver
 43% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1
Green earth
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Soot
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1
Bistre
 9% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Olive brown
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.0:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

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 Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Date
1877
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
46.5 × 38.2 cm (19 1/4 × 15 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Horses
Main colour
Green · lightness 51, colourfulness 11

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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