The Bullfight

Eugenio Lucas Villaamil · c. 1890/1900

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Palette

Sepia
37% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.5:1

Straw
23% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.9:1

Dark ochre
16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

Ochre
11% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.3:1

Bronze
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

Burnt orange
3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.7:1

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: Eugenio Lucas Villaamil
1858–1918
Date: c. 1890/1900
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: overall: 73.9 x 109.9 cm (29 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.)
Place: Spanish
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Brown · lightness 50, colourfulness 32

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Arthur Sachs. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1918: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1989. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

The Bullfight

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