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The Spanish Singer

The Spanish Singer

Édouard Manet · 1860

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Palette

Dark chocolate
71% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1

Sepia
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.0:1

Dark olive
6% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1

Caramel
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Chestnut
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.6:1

Fawn
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.9:1

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

Details

Artist: Édouard Manet
French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris
Date: 1860
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 58 x 45 in. (147.3 x 114.3 cm)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits · Music and dance
Main colour: Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of William Church Osborn, 1949. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules