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A work made of salted paper print.

Portrait of La Fontaine

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · c. 1854–1860

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Palette

Stone
 32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.1:1
Slate
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Bone white
 14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1
Warm grey
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Pale stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

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
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
Date
c. 1854–1860
Type
Photograph
Medium
Salted paper print
Size
Image/paper: 22.4 × 17.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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