diff --git a/src/sage/repl/image.py b/src/sage/repl/image.py
index d7d00b0..cd1607a 100644
--- a/src/sage/repl/image.py
+++ b/src/sage/repl/image.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class Image(SageObject):
 
         - ``size`` -- 2-tuple, containing (width, height) in pixels.
 
-        - ``color`` -- string or tuple of numeric. What colour to use
+        - ``color`` -- string, numeric or tuple of numeric. What colour to use
           for the image. Default is black.  If given, this should be a
           a tuple with one value per band. When creating RGB images,
           you can also use colour strings as supported by the
@@ -91,9 +91,15 @@ class Image(SageObject):
         EXAMPLES::
 
             sage: from sage.repl.image import Image
-            sage: Image('P', (16, 16), (13,))
+            sage: Image('P', (16, 16), 13)
             16x16px 8-bit Color image
         """
+        # pillow does not support Sage integers as color
+        from sage.rings.integer import Integer
+        if isinstance(color, Integer):
+            color = int(color)
+        elif isinstance(color, tuple):
+            color = tuple(int(i) if isinstance(i, Integer) else i for i in color)
         self._pil = PIL.Image.new(mode, size, color)
 
     @property
@@ -233,7 +239,7 @@ class Image(SageObject):
         EXAMPLES::
 
             sage: from sage.repl.image import Image
-            sage: img = Image('P', (12, 34), (13,))
+            sage: img = Image('P', (12, 34), 13)
             sage: filename = tmp_filename(ext='.png')
             sage: img.save(filename)
             sage: with open(filename, 'rb') as f: