The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

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Charcoal
33% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1

Pewter
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Iron
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.0:1

Slate blue
6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 7.7:1

Raw umber
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1

Caramel
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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

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Artist: Paul Cézanne
French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence
Date: 1890–92
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm)
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 37, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

The Card Players

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