Bullfight

Édouard Manet · 1865–66

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Palette

Sepia
27% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Fawn
21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1

Bistre
17% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1

Blue-grey
16% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.6:1

Putty
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.5:1

Sand
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1

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: Édouard Manet
Date: 1865–66
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 48 × 60.4 cm (18 7/8 × 23 3/4 in.); Framed: 72.4 × 84.5 × 9.3 cm (28 1/2 × 33 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Work and rural life
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 47, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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