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The Railway by Édouard Manet

The Railway

Édouard Manet · 1873

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Palette

Stone
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Midnight
 20% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.3:1
Graphite
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1
Silver
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Steel blue
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.0:1
Raw umber
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1

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
1832–1883
Date
1873
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
overall: 93.3 x 111.5 cm (36 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.)
Place
French
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 46, colourfulness 7

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1883: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1954. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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