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A sketchy black-and-white oil painting of a dozen horses walking in a circle, some with riders. All of the figures are shadowy.

Study for The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · c. 1850

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Palette

Khaki
 38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1
Tan
 26% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Caramel
 21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Fawn
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Cinnamon
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1
Bronze
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

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
Rosa Bonheur
Date
c. 1850
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
43.2 × 87 cm (17 × 34 1/2 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 111.8 × 10.2 cm (27 1/4 × 44 × 4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Horses
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 55, colourfulness 34

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of USY and T Industries, Inc.. 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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