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A hunched figure on horseback holds a thin shaft as he makes his way through windy, snowy weather suggested by strokes of white, gray, and brown.

Man with Lance Riding through the Snow

Adolf Schreyer · c. 1880

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Palette

Smoke
 33% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1
Lichen
 25% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.4:1
Green earth
 21% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1
Charcoal
 10% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1
Putty
 7% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.5:1
Bronze
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1

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
Adolf Schreyer
Date
c. 1880
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
17.2 × 23.5 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.); Framed: 33.4 × 40.7 × 7.7 cm (13 1/8 × 16 × 3 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Winter and snow · Horses
Main colour
Green · lightness 48, colourfulness 14

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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