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A work made of albumen print, no. 15 from the album "vistas del mar".

The Breaking Wave

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

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Palette

Biscuit
 28% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.1:1
Parchment
 25% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Graphite
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Taupe
 17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.1:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1

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
Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884
Date
1857
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen print, No. 15 from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Size
Image/paper: 41.4 × 33.6 cm (16 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Album page: 64.5 × 50.8 cm (25 7/16 × 20 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 63, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards 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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