For its inauguration in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was painted dark red. Then from 1892 it was painted ocher, followed by yellow from 1899, mustard up until 1954 and garnet until 1968. Since then, it has been painted brown (bronze).
Since its construction, it has been manually covered with brushes more than 19 times .
25 painters use 1,500 brushes and rollers to apply 60 tons of anti-corrosive coating during an 18-month renovation period. Today, the cost of these repainting works costs approximately €4 million.