Portrait of a straight-faced, light-skinned man with a bushy, light-brown beard and rosy cheeks wearing a dark vest, jacket, and shiny top hat. He grasps a thin cane, held horizontally, with both hands.

Édouard Manet

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1867

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Sepia
59% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Soot
26% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.5:1

Walnut
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.0:1

Coffee
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1

Umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.3:1

Raw umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.1:1

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Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Date: 1867
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.); Framed: 143.6 × 115 × 11.5 cm (56 1/2 × 45 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 30, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Stickney Fund. 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

Édouard Manet

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