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Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher)

Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher)

Édouard Manet · 1865–67

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Palette

Lamp black
68% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.7:1

Soot
13% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1

Sepia
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.3:1

Bistre
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.1:1

Ink
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.9:1

Raw umber
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1

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: 1865–67
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 188 × 111 cm (74 × 43 5/16 in.); Framed: 223.3 × 145.5 × 17.5 cm (87 7/8 × 57 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 11, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial 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