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Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.

Paris Street; Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte · 1877

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Palette

Ash
 38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Iron
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1
Ink
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.9:1
Pewter
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Oyster
 11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.8:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.1:1

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
Gustave Caillebotte
Date
1877
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
212.2 × 276.2 cm (83 1/2 × 108 3/4 in.); Framed: 241.3 × 306.1 × 10.2 cm (95 × 120 1/2 × 4 in.)
Place
Paris
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Rain and storms · Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 50, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester 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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