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A work made of charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping and erasing, on blue wove paper.

Bar of the Café of the rue de Rome

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · c. 1886

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Palette

Iron
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Warm grey
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Graphite
 18% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Pale stone
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 11.2:1
Silver
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Bone white
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1

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
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901
Date
c. 1886
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping and erasing, on blue wove paper
Size
34.4 × 46.2 cm (13 9/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison 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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