The Horse Fair color palette
Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55. The six main colors of the painting, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Bark#2F291ERGB 47, 41, 3054%
- Brown#775C3CRGB 119, 92, 6022%
- Slate green#546657RGB 84, 102, 8713%
- Pewter#83807CRGB 131, 128, 1247%
- Putty#ACA597RGB 172, 165, 1512%
- Parchment#D3C7ABRGB 211, 199, 1711%
Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole painting, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Bark rules this painting: it covers 54%, more than all the other colors together.
Light and dark are far apart: from parchment at value 8 down to bark at 2, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the painting its strong contrast.
Most of it is near-neutral (77% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the painting’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the painting in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
