The Legend of the Wolves
Rosa Bonheur · 1890s
Palette
Prussian blue
Slate blue
Steel blue
Slate
Blue-grey
Smoke
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
1822–1899 - Date
- 1890s
- Type
- Drawing & watercolour
- Medium
- charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and pastel on blue wove paper, edge mounted to paperboard
- Size
- overall: 59.9 x 80.7 cm (23 9/16 x 31 3/4 in.)
- Place
- French
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Blue · lightness 35, colourfulness 15
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1899: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1970. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules
