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In a shaft of light, surrounded by dramatic shadow and numerous sheep, a woman on horseback in a white bonnet and red skirt carries a baby and a basket, a black dog at right. Behind her two men follow, one mounted, one on foot, on a dirt path surrounded by trees.

The Road to Market

Constant Troyon · 1858–59

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Palette

Walnut
 24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.5:1
Dark chocolate
 22% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.5:1
Putty
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1
Raw umber
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1
Bronze
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Khaki
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

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
Constant Troyon
Date
1858–59
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
92 × 73.4 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 130.4 × 111.8 × 13.6 cm (51 3/8 × 44 × 5 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Dogs · Horses
Main colour
Brown · lightness 37, colourfulness 20

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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