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Three cavalry scouts—light-skinned men mounted on gleaming brown horses—among light-beige, arid mountains. The figure in the foreground has begun to to slump and seems poised to fall, his rifle on the ground, his horse agitated and alarmed. The others ride off in pursuit.

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

Frederic Remington · 1890

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Palette

Fawn
 49% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Blue-grey
 38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.3:1
Umber
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Graphite
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.9:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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
Frederic Remington
Date
1890
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
87.3 × 123.1 cm (34 3/8 × 48 1/2 in.)
Place
New York
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 62, colourfulness 13

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

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