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How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago

How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago

Frederic Remington · 1899

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Palette

Taupe
31% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Charcoal
25% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1

Iron
17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

Smoke
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

Soot
12% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1

Stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.2:1

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: Frederic Remington
Date: 1899
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 68.6 × 101.7 cm (27 × 40 1/16 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Horses
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 35, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding 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