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A work made of albumen print, from the album "vistas del mar".

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, with the Dumont Baths

Gustave Le Gray · 1856/57

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Palette

Pale stone
 53% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.5:1
Dark chocolate
 15% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.9:1
Coffee
 12% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1
Sepia
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Fawn
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1

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
1856/57
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Size
31.7 × 41 cm (12 1/2 × 16 3/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 55, 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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