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Ships in the Harbor at Sète

A work made of albumen print, no. 10 from the album "vistas del mar".

Ships in the Harbor at Sète

Gustave Le Gray · 1857

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Palette

Parchment
43% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

Graphite
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1

Smoke
14% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1

Taupe
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Putty
10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1

Bone white
6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1

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. 10 from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Size: Image/paper: 30 × 41.3 cm (11 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.); Album page: 51 × 64.2 cm (20 1/8 × 25 5/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 65, 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