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Théodore Géricault on His Deathbed

Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin · 1824

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Palette

Lamp black
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1
Smoke
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Bistre
 18% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.6:1
Warm grey
 16% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Silver
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1

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
Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin
Date
1824
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
45.6 × 55.6 cm (17 15/16 × 21 7/8 in.); Framed: 68 × 78.2 × 11.5 cm (26 3/4 × 31 × 4 1/2 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 32, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection. 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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