A work made of black conté crayon over pen and brush and black ink on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream).

On the Terrace of a Hotel in Bordighera: The Painter Jean Martin Reviews His Bill (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881

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Palette

Pale stone
62% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.4:1

Silver
22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1

Stone
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.5:1

Warm grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Putty
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.4:1

Smoke
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1

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: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919
Date: 1881
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Black conté crayon over pen and brush and black ink on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
Size: 45.2 × 35.4 cm (17 13/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 76, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein 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