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I see a Tower and I want to paint it black...

I've never thought of it black, and I'm a bit at loss as how someone could do so. Look, for instance, at the picture from the associated Wikipedia article. Does that strike you as black?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Tour_Eif...

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In Person it really looks like dark gray. None of the pictures I took last time I was there look anything like the picture linked. They show a very dark gray tower.

Depends on the light, in the ones I have from April it looks quite brown but in my pics from cloudier days it does look a bit more of a brown-grey colour.

It's probably souvenir tchotchkes, eg: https://www.amazon.com/Eiffel-Tower-Statue/dp/B072KLPVG5/

Lots of black-and-white pictures, lots of pictures in silhouette.

Pictures of the tower can also have a lot of... texture? If you don't know you're looking at "brown with shadows" you might think you're looking at "black with highlights."

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