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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
Champfleury (born Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson, French critic and novelist, 1821-1889)

A work made of woodburytype, from the periodical “galerie contemporaine littéraire, artistique” (1878), volume 6.

Champfleury (born Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson, French critic and novelist, 1821-1889)

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) · c. 1855/59

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Palette

Linen
46% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.6:1

Iron
36% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

Chalk
9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.6:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1

Pale stone
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

Warm grey
1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1

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: Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
Date: c. 1855/59
Type: Photograph
Medium: Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 6
Size: Image/paper: 22.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 65, colourfulness 10

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Gallery 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