Painting in brown and yellow tones of a flock of sheep at close range, one facing front and looking directly at the viewer.

Unfinished Study of Sheep

Constant Troyon · c. 1850

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Bistre
32% of the image
Brown · text contrast 15.0:1

Umber
31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.6:1

Cinnamon
27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.5:1

Bronze
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1

Olive brown
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

Dark ochre
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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

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Artist: Constant Troyon
Date: c. 1850
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 45.8 × 37.8 cm (18 × 14 7/8 in.); Framed: 75 × 67.4 × 15.3 cm (29 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 6 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 22, colourfulness 27

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

Unfinished Study of Sheep

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