In a beige room, a group of light-skinned men of various ages and a young boy clap as a figure in tattered clothing at center, his back to the viewer, dances and holds a tin cup in the air. At dark figure in shadows looks on from the far-right corner.

Bar-room Scene

William Sidney Mount · 1835

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Raw umber
68% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Tan
16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

Walnut
8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1

Bistre
5% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.8:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Caramel
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1

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Artist: William Sidney Mount
Date: 1835
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 57.4 × 69.7 cm (22 5/8 × 27 7/16 in.)
Place: Long Island
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Interiors
Main colour: Brown · lightness 39, colourfulness 24

Art Institute of Chicago, The William Owen Goodman and Erna Sawyer Goodman 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

Bar-room Scene

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