Brig on the Water
Gustave Le Gray · 1856
Palette
Taupe
Parchment
Iron
Mushroom
Putty
Bone white
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
- 1856
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
- Size
- Image/paper: 32.4 × 41 cm (12 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.3 cm (20 1/16 × 25 3/8 in.)
- Place
- France
- Period
- 19th century
- Main colour
- Brown · lightness 59, 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.
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