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Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher)

Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher)

Édouard Manet · 1865–67

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Palette

Lamp black
79% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.1:1

Bistre
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.3:1

Soot
3% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.2:1

Graphite
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1

Raw umber
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.4:1

Fawn
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

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: 187.7 × 109.9 cm (73 7/8 × 43 1/4 in.); Framed: 222.6 × 145.1 × 17.5 cm (87 5/8 × 57 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 10, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger 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