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A work made of albumen print, no. 21 from the album "vistas del mar".

The Haloed Sun

Gustave Le Gray · 1856

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Palette

Iron
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.9:1
Biscuit
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.7:1
Cream
 20% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.0:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.8:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

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
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen print, No. 21 from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Size
Image/paper: 32.6 × 41.6 cm (12 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.2 cm (20 1/16 × 25 5/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 60, colourfulness 15

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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